BEIRUT: Future Movement MP Ahmad Fatfat on Tuesday held Hezbollah responsible for threats allegedly made against him by a Hezbollah lawmaker during a parliamentary committee meeting.

“I hold Hezbollah responsible for anything that could happen to me,” Fatfat told local media Tuesday.

A heated quarrel broke out between Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar and Fatfat during a meeting of the Human Rights Parliamentary Committee Monday to discuss a detailed report implicating Syria in the kidnapping of Syrian dissidents in Lebanon.

Fatfat Tuesday said Hezbollah MP Hussein Musawi had interrupted him as he spoke in response to Musawi’s comments on the kidnapping of seven Estonian men and the role the French Embassy played in their release, as well as the issue of “false witnesses” and arms smuggling into Syria. 

“As I started speaking Musawi began to interrupt me. Then tension began to rise on their [Hezbollah’s] part,” Fatfat said. “Then they became furious when I said the false witnesses is a phony issue.”

“Here, they lost their minds and began cussing. MP Ali Ammar tried to toss a water bottle at me, and told me to meet him outside ‘to show you.’”

“There were more than fifty witnesses [during Monday’s meeting],” Fatfat said Tuesday. 

Ammar’s office had no comment on the report Monday, and could not be reached Tuesday. Speaking with reporters following the meeting Monday, Baalbek-Hermel MP Nawar Sahli denied that Ammar threatened Fatfat, explaining that he had only asked to meet to talk and that it was Fatfat’s words that had been threatening.

“I don’t carry weapons. Those who carry weapons are the ones that threaten and take it outside,” Fatfat told reporters after walking out of the session Monday.