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| By Israel Insider staff and partners August 12, 2006 |
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However, CNN's Brent Sadler, quoting a source inside the Lebanese government, says that the two Hezbollah ministers have indicated that they do not accept the demand that the group disarm in southern Lebanon. The demand may subvert the Lebanese government's initial acceptance of UNSC resolution 1701.
A second cabinet meeting has been scheduled to discuss the issue of implementation of the resolution and, potentially, to resolve the "reservations" of the Hezbollah ministers.
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said on Saturday his organization would abide by the UN cease-fire resolution but continue fighting as long as Israeli troops remained in south Lebanon.
"We will not be an obstacle to any (government) decision that it finds appropriate, but our ministers will express reservations about articles that we consider unjust and unfair."
Nasrallah grudgingly accepted the cease-fire plan in a televised address as the Lebanese Cabinet was in session to vote on whether to agree to the U.N. resolution. Hezbollah has two ministers in the government.
The Shiite cleric said Hezbollah rocket strikes on northern Israel would end when Israel stopped airstrikes and other attacks on Lebanese civilians.
Some of the heaviest fighting of the war raged Saturday as Israel sent an avalanche of military power into Lebanon, dispatching thousands of troops and columns of armor into the rocky hills just north of its border.
Nasrallah called continued resistance to the Israel offensive "our natural right" and predicted more hard fighting to come.
"We must not make a mistake, not in the resistance, the government or the people, and believe that the war has ended. The war has not ended. There have been continued strikes and continued casualties," he said.
"Today nothing has changed and it appears tomorrow nothing will change," he said.
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