Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said that Lebanon will not tolerate Israel seizing its oil, gas, and water resources, Channel 10 reported on Thursday.
“Lebanon will stand guard in order to protect all its rights – no matter the cost,” Qassem stressed during a speech on the Israel-Lebanon maritime border conflict.
Qassem said Hezbollah supports Lebanon’s insistence to protect its maritime rights as well as the proposal it had submitted to the United Nations in August on where its maritime economic border should be.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently said that the maritime borders proposed by Lebanon encroach upon Israeli territory, and are significantly further south than those recognized by Israel and determined in previous deals.
