On Friday, the Lebanese government discussed the plan of the Lebanese army to disarm the militant Hezbollah movement and the concentration of weapons exclusively in the hands of the state. Hezbollah rejects this step and claims that it will only benefit Israel and the United States. Informed AFP.
The government meeting had a dramatic introduction because after the arrival of the Chief of General Staff General Rudolf Hajkal, the government building was also left by the government ministers from the political block of Hezbollah and the Allied Shiite Party Amal. He was also joined by independent Shiite Minister Fadi Maki, who is close to Hezbollah and Amal.
The disarmament of Hezbollah is part of the implementation of the ceasefire of the US -mediated US, which ended more than a year in November in November.
Parliament calls for dialogue
Friday’s negotiations took place at the time of intensified Israeli air raids to Southern Lebanon, where at least five people died over the past two days, the Ministry of Health and the NNA State Press Agency said.
According to David Wood from the Independent Organization International Crisis Group Israel, it sends a signal that it will only accept specific steps to disarmament, not promises or statements. If the plan approves, Hezbollah could put pressure on Shiite ministers to resign or try to organize mass protests, AP reported.
The President of Parliament and the head of the Amal Barri movement, in an effort to alleviate the tension, called on the “calm and consensual dialogue”. At the end of August, however, Prime Minister Nawáf Salam decided that the way to monopolize weapons in the hands of the state and the decision on the war and heads “started and there is no way back”.
Israel you are issuing us, criticizing the leader
Hezbollah, who, after the civil war in 1975-1990 as the only Lebanese faction did not give his weapons, was the strongest political force in the country before the last conflict with Israel. His position, however, weakened the course of the war with Israel and the fall of his ally in Syria – President Bashar Assad.
The leader of Hezbollah has accused the Lebanese government of trying to disarming the Hezbollah movement “publishing Lebanon Israel”. He added that Hezbollah, along with the Amal movement, postponed the originally planned protests to give space to negotiations, but if the plan for disarmament is enforced, “Hezbollah will stand up”.
