The standoff between Hezbollah and the Lebanese government promises to be tense. The Shiite movement reacted, on Wednesday, August 6, on Wednesday, August 6, at the announcement the day before by the authorities to charge the army to prepare an action plan to disarm it by the end of the year, which would constitute an unprecedented measure.
The government “Has committed a serious sin by making a decision which deprives Lebanon of the weapon of resistance against the Israeli enemy”announced Hezbollah, believing that this decision “Sappable the sovereignty of Lebanon” et “Give the hands free to Israel”. “This is why we will do as if it did not exist”he added.
The Pro-Iranian militia party considers that this decision is “The fruit of the injunctions of the American emissary Tom Barrack”who had proposed to the authorities the disarmament of the movement according to a specific calendar. She “Fully serves the interests of Israel and leaves Lebanon exposed to the Israeli enemy, without means of deterrence”accuse Hezbollah.
Téhéran support
In Tehran, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs assured that his country supported its Lebanese ally. “Any decision about disarmament will last last resort to Hezbollah himself. We support him remotely, but we do not intervene in his decisions ”said Abbas Araghthchi.
The Lebanese government’s decision is part of the ceasefire application concluded under American mediation, which ended on November 27, 2024 to more than a year of conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. The agreement provides that only six military and security organizations are authorized to bear arms.
In its press release, Hezbollah reaffirms that the judgment of Israeli strikes on Lebanon, which continue almost daily despite the ceasefire, is a prerequisite for any discussion on “A new national defense strategy”.
A new Israeli shot on the Southern City of Tulin on Wednesday, died and a wounded, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. Israel has also launched a series of air strikes in the south of the Cedar country, injuring at least two people according to the same source. The Israeli army assured having struck “Arms warehouses, a missile launcher and Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure that stored tools to restore terrorist infrastructure in the region”.
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The Lebanese government’s decision withs Hezbollah the political legitimacy which has so far benefited from its arsenal, and which the previous governments had devoted. The Council of Ministers must meet on Thursday afternoon to continue the examination of the “Proposal submitted by the American part”According to the Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam.
Two ministers leave a meeting of the cabinet
The Lebanese Minister of Health, Rakan Nassereddine, affiliated with Hezbollah, and the Lebanese Minister of the Environment, Tamara El-Zein, close to the Amal Allié movement, left the meeting of the cabinet on Tuesday. According to Hezbollah, the ministers intended to express their “Rejection” of what he assimilates to a desire to “Submit Lebanon to American guardianship and Israeli occupation”.
The government decision has been unprecedented since the Taëf agreement, which ended the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) and under which the parties put their weapons back to the State-with the exception of Hezbollah, which kept them in the name of « résistance » in Israel.
The Lebanese Forces party, led by Christian leader Samir Geagea, said in a statement on Wednesday that “The historic decision made yesterday by the Council of Ministers should have been thirty-five years ago”at the end of the civil war. The free patriotic current, another great Christian party and former ally of Hezbollah, declared itself favorable to what the army recovers the arms of the group “In order to strengthen the defensive power of Lebanon”.
The Christian Party Kataëb, opposed to Hezbollah, praised a decision “Historical that puts Lebanon back on the path of sovereignty”warning against “Any logic of intimidation and abuse of power – a bygone era”.
Conversely, the Amal movement, led by the president of the Parliament, Nabih Berri, criticized a decision which “Precipitis of new free concessions to the Israeli enemy”believing that the government should have first “Work to consolidate the ceasefire and put an end to the Israeli death machine”.