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Hezbollah condemned connected Monday (March 2, 2026) the Lebanese government's determination to prohibition its subject activities, portion Israel carried retired retaliatory strikes successful effect to rockets fired by the Iran-backed group.
In a statement, Mohammed Raad, the caput of the group's Parliamentary bloc, condemned Beirut's "swaggering decisions", saying that "the Lebanese were expecting a determination rejecting the (Israeli) aggression".
Banning of Hezbollah’s subject and information activity
Lebanon’s authorities connected Monday (March 2, 2026) took the unprecedented measurement of banning Hezbollah’s subject and information activity, prompting the Iran-backed radical to lash retired astatine the decision.
Hezbollah is represented successful some the authorities and Parliament, and the determination came hours aft it announced it had launched rockets and drones towards Israel aboriginal connected Monday to avenge the sidesplitting of Iranian ultimate person Ali Khamenei successful U.S.-Israeli attacks.
Israel began bombarding Beirut’s confederate suburbs and dozens of villages successful southbound Lebanon, vowing to marque the radical wage a “heavy price”.
Israeli onslaught connected Lebanon
The strikes killed astatine slightest 52 radical and wounded astatine slightest 154, according to the Lebanese government.
The Israeli subject aboriginal said it had “completed a wide question of strikes connected Hezbollah violent organisation targets successful confederate Lebanon”.
“As portion of the strikes, much than 70 weapons retention facilities, motorboat sites, and rocket launchers” were hit, it said.
Following an exigency furniture gathering earlier Monday (March 2, 2026), Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said: “The Lebanese authorities declares its implicit and unequivocal rejection of immoderate subject oregon information actions launched from Lebanese territory extracurricular the model of its morganatic institutions.
“This necessitates the contiguous prohibition of each of Hezbollah’s information and subject activities, considering them to beryllium extracurricular the law, and obliging it to manus implicit its weapons”.
Mr. Salam had ordered the subject and information agencies to instrumentality “immediate measures” to instrumentality the furniture determination and forestall “any subject cognition oregon the launching of missiles oregon drones from Lebanese territory”.
Arrest order
Justice Minister Adel Nassar announced successful a station connected X that the judicial authorities had tasked “security agencies with instantly arresting those who launched the rockets and their instigators”.
A root adjacent to the Lebanese authorities reported that 2 Ministers from the Amal Movement, Hezbollah’s chap Shiite enactment and a cardinal ally, and 1 Minister from the radical itself had approved the cabinet’s decision.
