The "Loyalty to the Resistance" bloc affirmed that "the 40th day of the Master of Martyrs, Imam Hussein, is a great occasion that brings us together around the certainty of truth, steadfastness in it, sacrifice for its victory, and bearing the legal, humanitarian, and moral responsibility in opposing injustice and aggression by various means and methods, starting with statement and dialogue, all the way to consolidating the position and defending it even unto martyrdom, and rejecting all attempts of enticement or terrorism to concede, submit, or surrender." It said: "In our contemporary era, it is not hidden from any free, rational person that the arrogant policy pursued by the US administration towards various countries and peoples that cling to their national and humanitarian right to choose, with their full will and awareness, the political approach that expresses their identity and interests, and according to which they forge their regional and international relations without subservience to this or that influential power, and without extortion of anyone's sovereignty or dignity." The bloc strongly denounced, in a statement following its periodic meeting, "the authorities' continued pursuit of a policy of submission, surrender, and humiliating negotiation with the Israeli enemy, which persists in killing, shelling, leveling, and destruction, while continuing its meetings with the enemy's representatives in Rome, unconcerned by all the grave breaches and violations and the enemy's failure to adhere to any of the ceasefire requirements. It appears that the authority has resolved to adopt a policy of tolerance and good faith toward the enemy despite all its open criminality against humans and property, and its threat to the people of Al-Mansouri and forcing them to evacuate their town yesterday is merely additional proof of the misery of the authorities' choices and their obvious sterility. This was also confirmed by the recent statements of the US Ambassador, who called not to pin hopes on the results of the Rome negotiations, a matter that clearly reveals the objectives of the Israeli plan in procrastination and stalling." The bloc renewed, "in view of all these clear and scandalous developments, its call to the authority to make up its mind and stop negotiating with the enemy to halt the march of concessions that has neither provided security nor brought peace, and has brought Lebanon and the Lebanese nothing but further losses and the squandering of rights and sovereignty." It also paused at "the spectacle of shame, disgrace, and treason to Lebanon and the Lebanese embodied by the meeting of the one who boasts of his Zionism, named Antoine Sehnaoui, with the enemy prime minister and his wife, in a highly provocative meeting for every honorable Lebanese and free citizen in light of the escalation of Zionist criminality against Lebanon at all levels." The bloc affirmed that it was "not at all surprised by the level of baseness, treason, and pettiness of Sehnaoui after he had previously plunged deeply into betraying the Lebanese through his partnership in stealing depositors' money and donating some of it to the enemy entity, but the surprise is that the Lebanese authorities' reaction was not proportional to the atrocity of his crime represented by high treason against the homeland and its people. Therefore, the authority is called upon to be serious and take full and adequate legal measures against him in preservation of the blood and rights of the Lebanese, so that it may not be an accomplice once again and from a new angle in wasting their rights and also squandering the rights of the homeland." Likewise, the bloc paused at "the aggravation of manifestations of economic deterioration, the spread of manifestations of corruption, the magnification of the logic of commissions and deals, and the policy of quotas and dividing the pie by the pillars of the authority, especially regarding appointments, promotions, and illusory and useless projects," warning that "the authority's continuation of this policy will inevitably lead to an acceleration of the deterioration in conditions leading to economic collapse, which will entail disastrous repercussions on social conditions and people's living conditions, especially the poor classes and limited-income earners," calling on "the authority to conduct a comprehensive, deep, and accurate review of its financial and tax policies and to take rapid and effective measures that can address the crisis and alleviate people's suffering through a balanced and rational spending policy." While condemning "the continued US aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the threat to escalate and expand the war against it by the US administration," the bloc considered that "Washington's open aggressive policies will not be able to deter the Islamic Republic from clinging to its rights and the steadfast rights of its people to sovereignty, independence, and scientific and nuclear technological development in a way that serves Iran's prosperity and the progress and well-being of its people." And it "strongly condemned the ongoing and escalating Zionist aggression against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and the systematic abuse practiced by the occupation forces against our people from the Palestinian nation," seeing in "the immense steadfastness of the Palestinians, their adherence to their rights, and their persistence on their land conclusive proof that this great, patient, and reckoning people will be able, through its patience and steadfastness, to break the cycle of Zionist terrorism and forge a new dawn for Palestine no matter how dear the sacrifices and how long the time."