As the calls to the Hezbollah of Lebanon to disarm the impulse of profit, a senior Hezbollah official said that the group is ready to hold conversations with the Lebanese president about his weapons if Israel withdraws from the south of Lebanon and stops his attacks, Reuters information.
The perspective of the conversations aimed at ensuring the disarmament of Hezbollah, unjustible when he was in the zenith of his power only two years ago, underlines the dramatic changes in the balance of power of the Middle East since Israel hit the group in a devastating conflict caused by the assault of Gaza de Tel Aviv.
The United States supported President Joseph Aoun, who promised when he assumed the position in January to establish a state monopoly on weapons control, intends to open conversations with Hezbollah about his arsenal soon, said three Lebanese political sources.
Hezbollah arose severely weakened by the 2024 conflict with Israel when his main leaders and thousands of his combatants were killed and much of his arsenal of destroyed rockets.
The blow worsened when his ally Bashar Al-Assad was shot down from the power in Syria, cutting his alleged Iran supply lines.
Hezbollah’s senior official said the group was ready to discuss their weapons in the context of a national defense strategy, but this depended on Israel taking out its five hill troops in the south of Lebanon.
“Hezbollah is ready to discuss the issue of his weapons if Israel retires from the five points, and stops his aggression against the Lebanese,” said the senior official. Reuters.
Hezbollah’s position on possible discussions on his arms has not been previously informed. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity due to political sensibilities.
The Hezbollah Media Office did not immediately respond to a request for comments. The presidency declined to comment.
Israel, who sent land troops south of Lebanon during the conflict, retired to a large extent, but decided in February not to abandon the five positions of the top of the hill. He said he finally had them to deliver to the Lebanese troops once he was sure that the security situation allowed.
Renewed approach to Hezbollah’s arms
Despite a high fire since November, Israeli air attacks have maintained pressure on the group, while Washington has demanded that Hezbollah is disarmed and is preparing for nuclear conversations with Iran.
Reuters On Monday, several groups of militias in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avoid the threat of an increasing conflict with the Trump administration in the United States.
Hezbollah has long rejected his critics’ calls in Lebanon to disarm, describing his weapons as vital to defend the country of Israel. The deep differences on their arsenal spilled in a brief civil war in 2008.
The group’s critics say that the group has unilaterally dragged Lebanon to conflicts and the presence of its great arsenal outside government control has undermined the State.
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Two familiar sources with Hezbollah’s thought said his most powerful weapons to the army are wearing the army north of the Litani, including drones and anti -tank missiles.
Call for a disarmament schedule
Aoun has said that the Hezbollah weapons should be addressed through dialogue because any attempt to disarm the group by force would cause conflicts, the sources said.
Patriarch Bechara Bourtos Al-Rai, head of the Maronite Church of Lebanon, said last week that it was time for all weapons to be in state hands, but this would need time and diplomacy because “Lebanon cannot bear a new war.”
Communication channels with relevant stakeholders are being opened to “start studying the transfer of weapons” to state control, after army and security services had extended state authority throughout Lebanon, said a Lebanese official, saying that this was a movement to implement Aoun’s policy.
The problem was also being discussed with the speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, an important ally of Hezbollah, who plays a key role in the narrowing of differences, he said.
The American envoy Morgan Ortago, who visited Beirut on the weekend, repeated Washington’s position that Hezbollah and other armed groups should be unarmed as soon as possible and was expected that the Lebanese army did the job.
“It is clear that Hezbollah has to be disarmed and it is clear that Israel will not accept terrorists who shoot them, their country, and that is a position we understand,” Ortago said in an interview on April 6 with Lebanon. LBCI television.
Several Lebanese government ministers want a disarmament calendar, said Kamal Shehadi, a minister affiliated with the Lebanese Anti-Hezbolá party. Shehadi said Reuters Disarmament should not take more than six months, citing the disarmament of the civil war militia as precedent.
A schedule, which would presumably impose deadlines in the process, is, he said, the “only way to protect our fellow citizens from recurring attacks that cost lives, costing the economy and causing destruction.”
He said that he and other ministers hoped that the full cabinet would support the idea and task of the Minister of Defense with the preparation of the schedule. “We are going to keep asking for it,” he said.
The most recent conflict began when Hezbolá opened fire in support of Hamas at the beginning of the Israel War in Gaza in October 2023.
The leader of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, in a speech on March 29, H said that his group no longer has an armed presence south of the Litani, and had attached to the agreement of Alto El Fuego while Israel raped him “every day.”
Israel has accused Hezbollah of maintaining military infrastructure in the south.
Hezbollah has put responsibility in the Lebanese state for Israel to retire and stop his attacks.
Qassem said there was still time for diplomatic solutions. But he warned that the “resistance is present and ready” and indicated that it could resort to “other options” if Israel does not adhere to the treatment.
