Hizbullah officials have voiced their opposition to pardoning Lebanese citizens who collaborated with Israel during its occupation of Lebanon. Marjayoun-Hasbaya MP Qassem Hashem, a member of Hizbullah's parliamentary bloc, announced that several MPs are preparing a bill to deny Lebanese nationality for all "agents" who obtained Israeli citizenship "after they became Israelis through loyalty to their Zionist masters."In a statement in Marjayoun, Hashem said the agents "are not part of national reconciliation and cannot be encompassed by any amnesty law because they were Israel's tools ... and chose willingly to betray their country." Christian politicians, including Kesrouan MP Michel Aoun's Reform and Change parliamentary bloc, want to propose an amnesty law that will enable members of the now-defunct South Lebanon Army (SLA) to return home with their families. The Maronite Patriarch has suggested that amnesty be offered in the spirit of national reconciliation. Hizbullah commander in the South Sheikh Nabil Qaouk said the trial of agents was the minimal action required, adding that "pardoning them is a betrayal of the Lebanese people's sacrifices and the sacrifices of prisoners, detainees, martyrs and the wounded."