Lebanese president: Israel 'will never be able to achieve their objective'

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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun declared in a CNN interview that Israel will never achieve its objective of defeating Hezbollah, emphasizing that Hezbollah represents an idea rather than a geographic target. He noted the persistence of Hamas in Gaza as a parallel example and suggested Hezbollah must be addressed domestically within Lebanon.

Lebanese president: Israel 'will never be able to achieve their objective' Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has said in an interview with CNN that Israel "will never be able to achieve their objective" of defeating Hezbollah. "They can invade the whole country, they can flatten the whole country, but they will never be able to achieve their objective," Aoun told Christiane Amanpour. "Hezbollah is an idea, it's not an objective that you can see, it's not a geographic objective," he said. "It's war amongst people. The battlefield is the people". He continued: "They've tried it in Gaza. Hamas still exists or not?"  Aoun insisted that Hezbollah "can only be dealt with domestically". Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun on Israel: pic.twitter.com/MWedNPQdyg June 6, 2026