{"id":6097,"date":"2025-12-20T19:53:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=6097"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:53:47","slug":"lebanon-claims-first-phase-of-hezbollahs-disarmament-close-to-complete-israel-attacks-lebanon-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=6097","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon claims first phase of Hezbollah\u2019s disarmament close to complete | Israel attacks Lebanon News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>The PM says the part of the plan on south of the Litani River is \u2018only days away from completion\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 20 Dec 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">20 Dec 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div 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class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Lebanon is close to completing the disarmament of Hezbollah in the south of the Litani River before a year-end deadline as part of a ceasefire deal with Israel, according to Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s statement comes as the country races to fulfil the key demand in the US-backed deal agreed in November last year and ended more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>The agreement requires the disarmament of the Iran-aligned Lebanese armed group, starting in areas south of the river adjacent to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese authorities, led by President Joseph Aoun and Salam,\u00a0tasked\u00a0the US-backed Lebanese army on August 5 with devising a plan to establish a state monopoly on arms by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrime Minister Salam affirmed that the first phase of the weapons consolidation plan related to the area south of the Litani River is only days away from completion,\u201d a statement from his office said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state is ready to move on to the second phase \u2013 namely [confiscating weapons] north of the Litani River \u2013 based on the plan prepared by the Lebanese army pursuant to a mandate from the government,\u201d Salam added.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"committee-meeting\">Committee meeting<\/h2>\n<p>The statement came after Salam held talks with Simon Karam, Lebanon\u2019s top civilian negotiator on a committee overseeing the\u00a0Hezbollah-Israel truce.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting on Friday, the committee focused on how to return displaced people to their homes, addressing civilian issues to help prevent renewed war if the year-end deadline to disarm\u00a0Hezbollah\u00a0is not met.<\/p>\n<p>The 15th meeting of the committee reflected a longstanding US push to broaden talks between the sides beyond monitoring the 2024 ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>At Friday\u2019s meeting in the southern Lebanese coastal town of Naqoura, civilian participants discussed steps to support safe returns of residents uprooted by the 2023-24 war and advance economic reconstruction, the US Embassy in Beirut said.<\/p>\n<p>Since the ceasefire, Israeli warplanes have repeatedly targeted\u00a0parts of Lebanon, mostly southern Lebanon, but sometimes even the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Israel says it is questioning the Lebanese army\u2019s efforts to disarm\u00a0Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim armed group, has tried to resist the pressure \u2013 from its mainly Christian and Sunni Muslim opponents in Lebanon as well as from the US and Saudi Arabia \u2013 to disarm, saying it would be a mistake while Israel continues its air strikes on the country.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has publicly urged Lebanese authorities to fulfil the conditions of the truce, saying it will act \u201cas necessary\u201d if Lebanon fails to take steps against Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PM says the part of the plan on south of the Litani River is \u2018only days away from completion\u2019. 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