The deputy head of Hezbollah’s political council, Mahmoud Qmati, said Monday that “the Lebanese government will not be able to remove Hezbollah’s arms.”

Hezbollah supporters have attacked Finance Minister Yassine Jaber of the Amal Movement on social media for saying the monopoly of arms in the hand of the state is one of the current priorities.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has noted that what is currently happening in Lebanon is due to Israel’s war on Hezbollah last year.

The head of Iran's top security body, Ali Larijani, will visit Iraq on Monday before heading to Lebanon, where the government has approved a plan to disarm Tehran's ally Hezbollah, Iranian state media said.

"Ali Larijani departs today (Monday) for Iraq and then Lebanon on a three-day visit, his first foreign trip since taking office last week," state television reported

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday toured several majority-Christian border towns in south Lebanon, where he called for peace rather than war.

The Lebanese Army said a blast at a weapons depot near the Israeli border killed six soldiers on Saturday, with a military source saying the troops were removing munitions from a Hezbollah facility.

Lebanon slammed what it called "flagrant and unacceptable interference" by Iran on Saturday after an adviser to the Islamic republic's supreme leader expressed opposition to the disarmament of its ally Hezbollah.

Five Lebanese soldiers were killed on Saturday in a blast while removing munitions from a Hezbollah military facility in south Lebanon, a military source told AFP.

The head of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammad Raad, has warned that surrendering the group’s weapons would be equivalent to “surrendering one’s honor.”

MP Ali al-Meqdad of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc said “Lebanon should be protected by all its components and segments and by its resistance and army, which they want to put today in the face of the resistance.”