Lebanese PM instructs army to prepare plan for disarming Hezbollah by year’s end

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5 August 2025, 9:12 pm

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Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent

Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, center, and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, left background, lead a Cabinet meeting to discuss the disarmament of Hezbollah, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, August 5, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency press office via AP)

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announces that the government has instructed the Lebanese Armed Forces to prepare a plan for consolidating arms under state control by the end of the year, meaning that Hezbollah and other armed groups will be required to disarm.

According to reports from Lebanon, tonight’s cabinet meeting was expected to deal with announcing the disarmament of Hezbollah in line with a proposal submitted by the US to Lebanon on the matter.

However, Salam says that the issue has been postponed and will be discussed in the cabinet meeting scheduled for Thursday.