Hezbollah has said there is "no justification" for linking it to last year's killing of an Irish peacekeeper. <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/tags/lebanon/">Lebanon</a>'s military court charged <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/lebanon/2023/06/01/lebanese-judiciary-charges-five-hezbollah-members-over-un-peacekeepers-killing/" target="_blank">five alleged Hezbollah</a> members with the killing of <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/lebanon/2022/12/15/irish-un-peacekeeper-in-lebanon-shot-and-killed-in-serious-incident/" target="_blank">Private Sean Rooney</a> last December, when their UN Interim Force in Lebanon vehicle was attacked near the village of Al Aqbiya. The village is a stronghold of the militant group. Ten days later, Mohammad Ayyad, a man suspected of shooting and killing the Irish soldier, was <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2022/12/26/hezbollah-hands-over-man-suspected-of-killing-irish-un-peacekeeper-in-lebanon/">handed over to authorities by </a>the Iran-backed group. "There is no justification for the judicial official to mention the group's name," a Hezbollah official told AFP following the charges on Thursday. A 30-page indictment written by judge Fadi Sawan, the investigating judge in the military tribunal for the case, reportedly accuses five people of "forming a gang to commit a crime" and "intentional homicide". The indictment does not state any group affiliation, but a judicial official told AFP there was evidence in the case that showed links to the group.