Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem on Monday called on the government to “hold intensive sessions to discuss how to regain sovereignty through diplomacy, equipping the army and a defense strategy.”

“If we want to solve our problems in Lebanon, the start should be halting the aggression, Israel’s withdrawal, reconstruction and releasing the captives, and the government today is responsible for devising a plan for achieving this sovereignty,” said Qassem in a televised speech commemorating late religious scholar Sheikh Abbas Ali al-Moussawi.