Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah says negotiating “with the enemy is wrong” and warns of an “internal division.”
Published April 15, 2026
Israel has launched more deadly attacks on cities across southern Lebanon, continuing its invasion despite diplomatic pressure in Washington for direct talks between the two countries.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported that Wednesday's attacks killed at least 13 people, just a day after a meeting between Lebanese and Israeli envoys in the United States.
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An Israeli bombing in the town of Jbaa hit a family home, killing a man and his wife, his son and daughter-in-law, according to NNA, which reported that five other people were killed in the town of Ansariyeh and four in the town of Qadmus.
In parallel, Israel launched more attacks south of Beirut, hitting two vehicles: one in the coastal town of Saadiyat and another on a coastal highway in neighboring Jiyeh, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the capital.
Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr said: “There is anger here. People believe that the Lebanese government should not have sat down with Israel, the enemy, which has already killed more than 2,000 people in the last few weeks alone.
“What people want here is an end to the attacks,” he said, noting that the neighborhoods had been “repeatedly attacked by Israel in recent weeks.”
Residents, he added, were asking why the November 2024 ceasefire between Israel and the armed group Hezbollah, which the former repeatedly violated with almost daily violations, had not been implemented.
Hezbollah lawmaker criticizes Beirut's 'concessions'
The meeting between the Lebanese and Israeli envoys was hosted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and marked the first direct contact in decades between the two countries.
Both sides said the talks were positive, although before the meeting Israel had ruled out any discussion of Lebanon's demand for a ceasefire in the latest war, which broke out on March 2 when Hezbollah opened fire in retaliation for the assassination of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by the United States and Israel.
As Israel stepped up its offensive against the armed group, issuing another forced displacement order to residents in the south, Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said “the option of negotiating with the enemy is wrong.”
In a press conference, he accused the Lebanese government of “wasting Lebanon's political and military strength,” criticizing it for withdrawing its army from the south and “leaving it vulnerable to occupation and giving free rein to the enemy.”
“The current government has failed to live up to the people's expectations and has failed to capture the resistance of young fighters,” he said, criticizing Beirut for its “concessions” and for “inciting internal division” in the country.
He added that the Iran-aligned group wants a comprehensive ceasefire, not a return to almost daily Israeli attacks and killings as seen after the November 2024 ceasefire agreement.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli military had issued an evacuation order for southern residents. The NNA said the attacks also hit the southern towns of Baraachit, Souaneh, Babliyeh, Seddiqine, Nabatieh El Faouqa and areas along the Litani River.
The outskirts of the town of Bint Jbeil, which has been especially hard hit by a recent Israeli operation that claimed to have killed at least 100 Hezbollah fighters, were also hit by shelling, the ANN said.
Houses were also blown up in the southern city of Hanine.
