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The Lebanese government approved on August 7 a plan proposed by the United States that would ultimately lead to disarming Hezbollah by the end of the year.
The plan is based on a proposal made by U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack. The proposal includes a roadmap to fully disarm Hezbollah, in exchange for Israel halting its strikes on Lebanon and withdrawing its troops from the five posts it maintains in southern Lebanon.
In a press conference following the cabinet meeting, Information Minister Paul Morcos said that the government accepted the principles of the U.S. proposal, including “the gradual end of the presence of non-state armed groups in the country, including Hezbollah, both north and south of the Litani River,” but said that the full details of the plan were not discussed in depth.
The principles to which Lebanon agreed also include, according to the minister, “ensuring Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanese territory and the cessation of all hostilities, including ground, aerial and maritime violations,” as well as the establishment of a permanent border between Israel and Lebanon and between Syria and Lebanon.
Hezbollah ministers and their Shi’ite allies walked out of the cabinet’s discussion, but this was not apparently enough to stop the rest from approving the plan.
Asked how Hezbollah’s disarmament would be carried out in light of the group’s refusal to cooperate, Morcos said that the decisions would be implemented in accordance with a plan to be submitted by the Lebanese Army by the end of August, which will include a timeline for disarmament by the end of the year.
A day earlier, the group warned the government against accepting the plan, calling it a “major mistake” that harms the country’s sovereignty.
From his side, Barrack hailed what he described as a “historic” decision by Lebanon in approving the U.S. plan.
In a post on X, Barrack congratulated Lebanese leaders “for making the historic, bold, and correct decision this week to begin fully implementing” the ceasefire deal. “This week’s Cabinet resolutions finally put into motion the ‘One Nation, One Army’ solution for Lebanon. We stand behind the Lebanese people.”
Limited pro-Hezbollah protests broke out in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, following the approval of the U.S. plan.
Citing “political sources” with knowledge of the matter, pro-Hezbollah newspaper Al Akhbar said the group and its allies could respond to the plan by withdrawing their four ministers from the government or trigger a no-confidence vote in parliament by the Shiite bloc, which comprises 27 of Lebanon’s 128 lawmakers.
As the government was approving the plan, an Israeli strike on eastern Lebanon killed six people. The state-run National News Agency reports that the strike hit a vehicle in the region, near a border crossing with Syria.
All in all, Lebanon may be on the brink of an internal conflict, one that would greatly benefit Israel. Hezbollah would rather take its chances with such a conflict, or even in a new war with Israel, over handing over its weapons.
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submission to usil terror will bring more usil terror. will they submit even more and pay the us for the occupation oh sorry the military partnership you know south korea pays over 1.1 billion for foreign us bases on its soil and japan over 13 billions… will collaborators also disarm lebanese army? oh and while they are there will they have all lebanese leave their land to ease the greater israel project ? or will they kneel down and wait for hts to chop their heads?
israel seeks revenge again without any real perception of its action and harm this mindset creates .
and this is going to protect lebanon from eventual israeli expansion ????
i’m sure that israhell will honour all their commitments in any agreement that is made. i’m sure they really, really will. honest.
did the plo military wings not leave beirut as part of a deal with israel in the 1980s and then the defenceless civilians were then massacred by the israeli allies as the israelis watched?
ah, but it will be completely different this time. instead of zio controlled phalangist scum carrying out massacres on behalf of their joo masters, it will be zio controlled isis scum carrying out massacres on behalf of their joo masters. so you see, it’s totally different. and i’m sure israhell can be relied upon to act in good faith.
quislings, that wants their own people, and the palestinians murdered. kick out the genocidial “us” from wherever it is ! the only thing they want are to kill native people. blow them from the surface !
israel should withdraw from the west bank and also syria.
iran was devastating israel, they could have negotiated that and withdrawal from southern lebanon and gaza.
it would have been great but we do not know what iran really asked maybe did they? though i have r arely seen ‘israel’ concede to anything (they obviously disrespect anyone they attack) and when they do, they find a pretext not to respect the deal.the project since the beginning is to ‘conquer’ lands and nutty already a revizionist (jabotinsky line) is highly likely to attempt more landgrabs to please his coalition with the expanzionists.
it seems that arab countries beside turkey are accomplices in the gaza genocide