In a comment on the “X” platform, MP Jamil El Sayed addressed the appointment of former ambassador Simon Karam as head of the Lebanese delegation to the ceasefire agreement committee (the Mechanism) in the south, describing this decision as “surprising in public and cooked up behind the scenes,” which sparked controversy and inquiries in various political circles.
El Sayed clarified that “in a mission of this sensitivity, the most important thing is not the person, but the positions that the state will assign to him,” adding: “And the state is three, there is no fourth… and Lebanon is a state without secrets.”
These statements from El Sayed come amidst successive political and security developments in Lebanese-Israeli relations, especially with the expansion of the work of the Mechanism committee stemming from the ceasefire agreement, which began in an expanded meeting in Naqoura with the participation of civilians from both sides, for the first time since 2024.
