Lebanese official claims army dismantled ‘over 90%’ of Hezbollah infrastructure near Israel

The Lebanese army has dismantled “over 90 percent” of Hezbollah’s infrastructure near the border with Israel since a November ceasefire, a Lebanese security official says.

“We have dismantled over 90 percent of the infrastructure in the area south of the Litani,” the official, who requested anonymity as the matter is sensitive, tells AFP.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, meanwhile, said in an interview with Sky News Arabia that the army is now in control of over 85 percent of the country’s south.

The November truce deal, which ended over a year of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, was based on a UN Security Council resolution that says Lebanese troops and United Nations peacekeepers should be the only forces in south Lebanon. Under the deal, Hezbollah was to pull its fighters north of Lebanon’s Litani River, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the Israeli border, and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure to its south.

Much of Hezbollah’s robust underground infrastructure in the south has been “filled and closed” by the army, the official says. Soldiers have also reinforced their control of crossing points into the area south of the Litani “to prevent the transfer of weapons from the north of the river to the south.”

There is currently no outside confirmation of the claim.