Lebanese president says state monopoly on weapons 'inevitable', seeks international oversight | | AW

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : He said Lebanon was ready to entrust the truce supervisory committee, comprising the United States, France, Lebanon, Israel and United Nations peacekeepers, with "making sure that in the south Litani region, only the Lebanese army is exerting its sovereignty by its own means".
54% : Lebanese President Joseph Aoun addreses the nation on the eve of Independence Day in a televised speech from the Lebanese Armys South Litani Sector Command headquarters in Tyre, on November 21, 2025. Lebanon's president said on Friday a state monopoly on weapons was "inevitable" and urged the international committee supervising the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to ensure the army was the only armed presence in the country's south.
53% : Aoun made the speech from southern Lebanon, where Israel still maintains troops in five areas that it deems strategic.
41% : Despite the truce, Israel has kept up frequent strikes on Lebanon, mainly saying it has been targeting Hezbollah, which it accuses of re-arming.
38% : Israel has kept up strikes on Lebanon despite a ceasefire agreed last November that sought to halt more than a year of hostilities with Hamas ally Hezbollah, including two months of full-blown war.
37% : Under heavy US pressure and fearing expanded Israeli strikes, Lebanon has committed to disarming the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, which emerged badly weakened from more than a year of hostilities with Israel that largely ended with a ceasefire last November.
36% : Israel's military said it "is operating against Hamas' establishment in Lebanon, and will continue to operate against Hamas terrorists wherever they operate", it said.
34% : Those killed included "Jihad Saidawi, who was involved in training terrorists in order to carry out terror attacks from Lebanese territory" against Israel and its troops.
21% : UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, pointed to "a broader pattern of unlawful killings and violations of the ceasefire agreement by Israel". Tidball-Binz is an independent expert mandated by the UN Human Rights Council but who does not speak on behalf of the United Nations.

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