Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem on the 28th urged the Lebanese government to annul the Lebanon–Israel–U.S. trilateral framework agreement, saying it undermines Lebanese sovereignty and fails to protect Lebanese interests. Speaking at an event south of Beirut, Qassem called the pact illegal, unjust and humiliating, accused the U.S. and Israel of trying to control and divide the Middle East, and said populations in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen and Iraq had resisted those plans.