U.S.-backed effort to end hostilities between Israel and Lebanon hit a wall Thursday. A major political and military faction in Lebanon pushed back hard. Just a day after the proposed truce went public, Iran-backed Hezbollah slammed terms as humiliating capitulation.
Naim Qassem,senior Hezbollah official, spoke for the group. He called earlier talks a waste. Said deal had little support among many Lebanese . Hezbollah wasn't even at table for these discussions .
The accord,revealed Wednesday night,aimed to set a truce between the two nations. But will it hold…?






