Mohammed Raad (head of Hezbollah's "Loyalty to the Resistance" parliamentary bloc) — appeal to "the people of the Resistance" (Al-Manar, post-2024 ceasefire): the resistance's weapon is "the real barrier preventing the entrenchment and hegemony of the occupation"; the fight is a "defensive" national duty; and neither an alliance with America nor normalization with Israel will protect the region's peoples and sovereignty.

— سلاح المقاومة الذي تحرّكه هذه الإرادة، يشكّل المانع الحقيقي لتثبيت الاحتلال واستقراره وهيمنته
— نحن وإياكم يا أهلنا نقوم بواجبنا الدفاعي الوطني والإنساني والأخلاقي، ضد العدو الصهيوني حفظًا وحمايةً لوجودنا وأرضنا ووطننا وشعبنا
— لن يحمي شعوبها وسيادة دولها من الأطماع الصهيونية لا تحالفٌ مع أمريكا راعية الإرهاب الصهيوني ولا حتّى تطبيع مع العنصريين الصهاينة المحتلّين والغاصبين

[Source is Arabic (Al-Manar, Hezbollah's own TV channel — tier-1 actor's-own-channel); the dash-prefixed lines are verbatim quoted fragments from his appeal, confirmed character-for-character (bidi/zero-width marks stripped). PROVENANCE FLAG: the page exposed no machine-readable publication date; from its content (references to the September-2024 "pager massacre" and the November-2024 ceasefire) the appeal dates to the post-ceasefire period (late 2024 / 2025); published_date left null pending confirmation.] English of the fragments: — "the resistance's weapon, which this will moves, constitutes the real barrier preventing the entrenchment, stabilization and hegemony of the occupation"; — "We and you, our people, carry out our national, humanitarian and moral DEFENSIVE duty against the Zionist enemy, to preserve and protect our existence, our land, our homeland and our people"; — "[the region] whose peoples and the sovereignty of whose states will be protected from Zionist greed neither by an alliance with America, the sponsor of Zionist terrorism, nor even by normalization with the racist Zionist occupiers and usurpers." CONTEXT: Declared positions of Mohammed Raad — head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc ("Loyalty to the Resistance"), the movement's most senior elected official and political spokesman. From his public appeal to "the people of the Resistance" after the 2024 Israel–Hezbollah war and ceasefire. He defends retaining Hezbollah's WEAPONS as the indispensable deterrent ("the real barrier") against Israeli occupation and hegemony, frames the resistance as a purely defensive national duty, and rejects BOTH a US alliance AND normalization with Israel as illusory routes to security and sovereignty. (In an August 2025 Al-Manar interview he conditioned any handover of arms to the state on the state first being "capable of forcing the occupation to withdraw and protecting the country.") This is the Hezbollah arms-retention / anti-normalization pole — the direct CONTESTED-CELL counterpoint to Kataeb leader Sami Gemayel's demand for the state's exclusive monopoly on arms and to the Lebanese sovereigntists' disarmament push. [Axes: regime-stance (resistance arms vs state monopoly on arms), palestinian-question / regional-stance (axis of resistance; anti-Israel), west-alignment (anti-US, anti-normalization). Pairs as a contested cell with Sami Gemayel (Kataeb).]