Report: Army barred from using Hezbollah's weapons
The Lebanese Army “has received an order not to put in its depots any arms found in areas south of the Litani River,” informed sources told al-Akhbar newspaper in remarks published Thursday.
“There are conflicting reports about whether the army has seized arms and ammunition left behind by the resistance in several southern points or that it has destroyed them on the spot at the United States’ request, knowing that Israel has told the Americans that it wants the arms destroyed so that they do not fall in Hezbollah’s arms anew,” al-Akhbar added.
The deputy head of the Higher Islamic Shiite Council, Sheikh Ali al-Khatib, has said in an interview with OTV that the Lebanese Army is “prohibited from arming itself to face Israel” and that it “detonating the arms it is finding in the South.”
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