Vehicles drive past billboards that read in Arabic, "Lebanon first", one of which has been set on fire along Beirut's airport road, amidst tensions following Lebanon's framework agreement with Israel. AFP
Speaking at a memorial ceremony, Fadlallah said: "The agreement of humiliation and disgrace signed by the authorities will never see the light of day and will not be implemented."
He added that what "the authorities have done amounts to sedition aimed at pushing the country into chaos and shifting the conflict from one with the enemy to an internal conflict".
"Our finger will remain on the trigger, we will continue our path of resistance to achieve our objectives, and we will exercise our legitimate right to defend our people," he said.
The agreement, reached in Washington after five rounds of negotiations, stipulates a gradual Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory, beginning with two pilot zones located north and south of the Litani River.
While the deal sets no timetable for the occupation forces' withdrawal, it links the process to the Lebanese Army assuming full security responsibility in southern Lebanon and the disarmament of all resistance armed groups, with particular reference to Hezbollah.
According to the text of the deal shared by the US State Department, Lebanon and Israel, officially at war for decades, expressed their intent to "conclusively end the conflict, address its underlying causes and to therewith formally conclude any state of war between them".
Fadlallah spoke a day after Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told US President Donald Trump in a phone call that the Lebanese state "will assume its responsibilities" in implementing the framework agreement.
Israeli officials, however, have stressed that the agreement with Lebanon does not provide for an immediate withdrawal.
On Saturday, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz reiterated that occupation troops would remain inside what Israel calls a "security belt" in southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed and threats cease.
Hezbollah's leader Naim Qassem had said on Saturday that the group would treat the deal as "null and void" and described it as "a surrender of sovereignty".
Since Israel reignited its war on Lebanon on 2 March, its forces have killed at least 4,246 people, wounded 12,190, and displaced more than one million, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
Less than 24 hours after the agreement was signed in Washington, Lebanese state media had reported Israeli airstrikes on the south on Saturday, and the Lebanese health ministry said one person was killed in an attack on the town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa that day.
On Sunday, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported a new attack on the country's south, saying "an Israeli warplane carried out an airstrike targeting the outskirts of the towns of Deir Seryan and Taybeh".
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