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Lebanon cabinet welcomes army plan to disarm Hezbollah, no timeline given
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 5, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 5, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Lebanon's cabinet backs a secret army plan to disarm Hezbollah, causing Shi'ite ministers to walk out in protest, escalating tensions.
(Reuters) -Lebanon's cabinet on Friday welcomed a plan drafted by the army to disarm Hezbollah but decided to keep its contents secret, the information minister said, a move that could escalate the standoff over the Shi'ite Muslim group's arsenal, which it has refused to relinquish.
The Iran-backed group and its allies object to the disarmament plan and all five Shi'ite ministers walked out of the cabinet session as soon as Lebanese army commander Rodolphe Haykal entered to present it.
(Reporting by Maya Gebeily and Laila Bassam; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
Lebanon's cabinet welcomed a plan drafted by the army to disarm Hezbollah but chose to keep its contents secret.
All five Shi'ite ministers walked out of the cabinet session as soon as Lebanese army commander Rodolphe Haykal entered to present the plan.
The plan to disarm Hezbollah was drafted by the Lebanese army.
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