With a deadline looming, Lebanon is under pressure to disarm Hezbollah or risk another war

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Successive Israeli leaders have sought to stifle Hezbollah's growth as a formidable paramilitary force in Lebanese politics and threat to Israel's national security.
47% : Israel wants the Hezbollah militant group based in the country to be disarmed.
47% : After nearly a year of Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel and Israeli retaliation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened a "new phase" of the Gaza war in September 2024. Using unprecedented means, such as remote detonation of the group's pagers and 2,000-pound (900kg) US-made "bunker buster" bombs, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) quickly pierced Hezbollah's defences.
44% : Israel claimed to have eliminated many of the group's hideouts and assets, including ammunition depots and infrastructure, especially in Beirut and southern Lebanon.
44% : In February of this year, Israel withdrew its troops from most of southern Lebanon, but maintained control of five strategic points inside Lebanon after the deadline to withdraw its troops.
43% : However, Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza gave it another opportunity to take on Hezbollah when the group joined the conflict in solidarity with Hamas.
42% : Then, in August, Israel said it would pull back the rest of its forces only when the Lebanese army was able to take over positions currently manned by Hezbollah operatives and the group was totally disarmed.
37% : Hezbollah has refused to give up its arms as long as Israel threatens Lebanon.
37% : Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 and 2006 to try to destroy the group, without much success.
37% : If he doesn't, he risks Israel's wrath and another round of war.
37% : It needs to restrain Israel from continuing to breach the ceasefire to give time to Salam's government to find a non-confrontational way to defuse the situation.
36% : This is a recipe for renewed internal conflict in Lebanon, as well as another round of war between Israel and Hezbollah.
36% : Israel's two-month war on Hezbollah Israel and Hezbollah have been at loggerheads since the Lebanese group's creation, with help from the Islamic Republic of Iran, in the early 1980s.
34% : But the reformist Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam's task has become very difficult, with Israel regularly bombing what it calls Hezbollah targets to ensure the group does not regain its pre-war strength.
30% : Israel lost more than 80 soldiers and 47 civilians.
20% : He also said if Israel broadens its attacks into another war, Hezbollah's missiles "would fall" on Israel.

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