Hezbollah released an open letter to the Lebanese government on 6 November, reaffirming its right to armed resistance against occupation and calling on Lebanon to reach a “unified and dignified national stance” to Israel’s daily attacks and ceasefire violations.

The resistance slammed and rejected US calls for direct talks between Lebanon and Israel, which it described as “negotiation traps” that would “only grant further gains to the Israeli enemy.”

It also said it released this message out of “commitment to … the protection of sovereignty, and the preservation of security and stability in Lebanon,” and “in order to block attempts to drag the Lebanese state into new rounds of negotiations serving only the goals and interests of the Zionist enemy and the powers of tyranny hostile to truth and justice.”

“While the facts confirm that Lebanon and Hezbollah have implicitly and strictly abided by the content of the ceasefire declaration from the moment it was issued until today, the Zionist enemy has continued its violations of the declaration by land, sea, and air – and still does so now – disregarding all calls to cease its hostile actions,” Hezbollah added.

“Instead, the enemy has exploited such calls to blackmail Lebanon, impose conditions, and evade halting its aggression – persisting in its project to subjugate Lebanon, humiliate its state, people, and army, and drag it into a political agreement that would force Lebanon to recognize the enemy’s interests in our country and the region, as well as to acknowledge the legitimacy of its armed occupation of Palestinian land.”

It also said that the “hasty” Lebanese government decision on disarmament was a “goodwill gesture to the enemy,” but Israel “exploited this governmental misstep to impose the disarmament of the resistance throughout Lebanon as a precondition for halting hostilities – something that was not stipulated in the ceasefire declaration and can neither be accepted nor imposed.”

The statement reaffirmed Hezbollah’s commitment to the ceasefire agreement. The group made clear that it has withdrawn from the southern Litani River area with its weapons and armed personnel, in line with the deal.

“The issue of exclusive arms cannot be discussed in response to foreign demands or Israeli blackmail, but only within a national framework that produces a comprehensive strategy for defense, security, and the protection of national sovereignty,” the resistance movement said.

“As a founding component of Lebanon, which we have pledged as a final homeland for all its citizens, we reaffirm our legitimate right to resist occupation and aggression, and to stand alongside our army and our people in defending the sovereignty of our country,” the statement went on to say.

The letter was addressed to Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

Right after the letter was issued, Israel launched a violent attack on southern Lebanon, striking between the towns of Toura and Abbasiya.

Israeli warplanes targeted a sawmill and an iron factory, local reports said.

The Israeli army said in a statement that it “attacked … terrorists operating in terror infrastructure of the ‘construction unit’ in the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the Tyre area in southern Lebanon.”

US officials have been calling on Lebanon to open direct channels of communication with Israel, in violation of the country’s own laws.

Israel has significantly escalated its strikes on Lebanon over the past few weeks. It says Hezbollah is repairing and refilling weapons stocks and is managing to smuggle in arms and equipment from Syria – despite authorities in Damascus working to intercept the shipments.

Recent Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon have destroyed reconstruction equipment to prevent Lebanon from rebuilding. Israel claims the equipment is used by Hezbollah to reconstruct infrastructure.

Over 300 people have been killed by Israel since the ceasefire agreement was reached on 27 November 2024.

Since the start of October 2025 alone, at least 37 Lebanese people have been killed by Israeli strikes.

“Hezbollah is playing with fire and the president of Lebanon is dragging his feet,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a social media post on Sunday. “The Lebanese government’s commitment to disarm Hezbollah and remove it from southern Lebanon must be carried out.”

“The strictest enforcement will continue and will even deepen – we will not allow a threat to the residents of the north,” the defense minister added.

Washington has publicly backed Tel Aviv’s position. US envoy Tom Barrack recently warned that Lebanon faces a new Israeli war if it does not immediately disarm the resistance.