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Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Lebanese Christian leader says Hezbollah should lay down arms ‘as soon as possible’
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Samir Geagea, head of the Lebanese Forces and parliament's main Christian bloc, speaks during an interview with AFP at his residence in Maarab, north of Beirut on October 7, 2025. (Joseph EID / AFP)
MAARAB, Lebanon — Samir Geagea, the head of Lebanon’s main Christian party, the Lebanese Forces, tells AFP in an interview today that Hezbollah should surrender its weapons to the state “as soon as possible.”
Iran-backed Hezbollah was Lebanon’s only movement that refused to disarm after the country’s civil war ended in 1990.
With Hezbollah under pressure from Lebanese rivals as well as the United States and Israel, Lebanon’s army now plans to disarm the movement, a push the terror group has rejected.
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
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