The League of Arab States removed Hezbollah from the list of terrorist organizations


The League of Arab States no longer considers the Shiite group Hezbollah a terrorist organization. This was reported by Al-Akhbar newspaper.

It is noted that Husam Zaki, assistant secretary general of the Arab League, met with Mohammed Raad, a member of the political bureau of the resistance movement, in Beirut.

"The League decided to remove the status of a terrorist group from Hezbollah, because this party plays an important role in the current politics and future of Lebanon," said the Egyptian diplomat.

Zaki's meeting with Raad is the first since 2016, when the Shiite group was designated a terrorist organization by the League of Nations' Foreign Ministers' Committee at the initiative of Saudi Arabia. At the time, Hezbollah was accused of strengthening Iran's influence in the Middle East and meddling in the internal affairs of Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

In an interview with journalists in Beirut, the Egyptian diplomat stated that the purpose of his visit was to express the solidarity of the regional community with Lebanon and its people on behalf of the Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmed Abu al-Ghait.

"Military escalation in the south is a serious threat to security and stability not only in Lebanon, but in the entire Middle East. Therefore, it is impossible to allow Hezbollah's conflict with Israel to expand," said Zaki.


He said that in order to ensure peace in the region, all parties must comply with UN Security Council Resolution 1701. According to the diplomat, the international community should "achieve an end to the violent war in the Gaza Strip, which also applies to the conflict in southern Lebanon."

The assistant secretary-general of the Arab League also called on Lebanese politicians to put national interests before personal ambitions and elect a new president of the republic, whose post has been vacant for 19 months.

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