Lebanese Newspaper Al-Akhbar released some details of the meeting between Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri and US envoy Tom Barrack earlier this week.
In a report on Friday, Al-Akhbar mentioned that the Lebanese speaker told the US envoy that the Zionist entity is untrustworthy.
“Berri gave Barrack a factual account of what Israel had done against Lebanon and against Hezbollah since the announcement of the ceasefire agreement” on November 27, 2024, Al-Akhbar reported.
It quoted Berri as addressing Barrack: “You know that Israel had one soldier killed during this period as a result of an explosion in a border village. However, it had killed more than two hundred Lebanese, including Hezbollah fighters.”
“Israel has bombed entire Lebanon, from all the country’s south – not only the Litani River -, passing through the Beirut’s southern suburb (Dahiyeh) and the highway linking the capital with Sidon, reaching the Bekaa and the north as well,” Berri told the US envoy, according to the daily.
Hezbollah has not been responding to the Israeli bombardment with a single bullet, the Lebanese speaker told Barrack, asking him: “Mr. Tom, do you think what Israel is doing allows anyone to say that it really wants a ceasefire?”
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“When Israel refuses to withdraw from the five occupied points, continues to arrest Lebanese, continues its land, air and sea violations, and prevents the people of the border villages from reaching their fields or what remains of their homes… this Israel can be trusted? And what are you going to do with Israel so that we can say that stability has been achieved?”
Speaker Berri also cited the massacres taking place in Syria, including earlier crimes in the Syrian Coast and the ongoing events in Sweida.
“Mr. Barrack you are an expert in the Syrian issues and you are informed about the crimes committed there by organized or even disunited groups. Don’t you see that such event raise concerns in Lebanon, especially that there are no guarantees that these militants will not head to Lebanon?,” Speaker Berri addressed Barrack as saying, according to Al-Akhbar.
“Who can talk about disarmament under these conditions,” the paper quoted the Lebanese speaker as wondering.
Source: Al-Akhbar newspaper (translated and edited by Al-Manar English Website)
