Gemayel says Hezbollah surrendered 'in only 10 days' of war

Kataeb leader MP Sami Gemayel said that Hezbollah has surrendered and south Lebanon was destroyed in only 10 days of Israeli strikes.

Gemayel demanded Hezbollah be disarmed, stressing that the group has stopped being a Lebanese "resistance" movement since it entered Syria, in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

In an interview Thursday with MTV, Gemayel accused Hezbollah of being an Iranian tool and in sacrificing Lebanon and its youth for the sake of Iran’s interests. "Hezbollah has paid the price along with the (Lebanese) people, the Shiite community, and the Lebanese economy," Gemayel said.

Gemayel criticized the ceasefire with Israel, saying the negotiations were Israeli-Iranian, and that the Lebanese parties were only "intermediators".

The ceasefire offered relief to both sides, giving Israel’s overstretched army a break and allowing Hezbollah leaders to tout the group’s effectiveness in holding their ground despite Israel’s massive advantage in weaponry.

After months of cross-border bombings, Israel can claim major victories, including the killing of Hezbollah’s top leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and most of his senior commanders and the explosion of hundreds of walkie-talkies and pagers used by Hezbollah, signaling a remarkable penetration of the militant group.

The damage inflicted on Hezbollah has hit not only in its ranks, but the reputation it built by fighting Israel to a stalemate in the 2006 war. Still, its fighters managed to put up heavy resistance on the ground, slowing Israel’s advance while continuing to fire scores of rockets, missiles and drones across the border each day.