US EditionLebanese Shiite ministers walk out of Cabinet meeting over Hezbollah disarmament plan
- In November 2024, Lebanon’s Cabinet held a nearly six-hour meeting to address a plan for disarming Hezbollah by restricting weapons to state institutions only.
- The session followed heavy U.S. pressure amid growing Lebanese and Western demands to disarm Hezbollah after its 13-month war with Israel left it severely weakened.
- Hezbollah’s leader Naim Kassem rejected any disarmament timetable and insisted the group would keep its arsenal while Israeli attacks and occupation continue in Lebanon.
- The Israel-Hezbollah war caused over 4,000 deaths and $11 billion in damage, and the Lebanese army claims to have removed 90% of Hezbollah's southern weapons stockpiles.
- The Cabinet’s plan aims for state monopoly on weapons by year-end, reflecting a tentative step toward Lebanon’s national unity and U.S.-backed regional stability efforts despite Hezbollah’s resistance.
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The Hezbollah Ministers and their Shiite allies left the meeting. A full disarmament of Hezbollah is planned by the end of the year.
The Hezbollah and other militias in Lebanon are supposed to drop their weapons, but they refuse. An exact plan on how to disarm is still pending. For the U.S. ambassador, however, it is a "historical and courageous decision".
The government in Lebanon wants to disarm all militias, including Hezbollah. Hezbollah ministers left the cabinet session in protest. The disarmament plan is considered politically risky.
Shia members of the Lebanese cabinet left a government meeting on Thursday in protest of a proposed plan to disarm the Shia military-political group Hezbollah.
The Lebanese government has agreed to a US plan to disarm militias. Hezbollah ministers left the meeting in protest.
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