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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/world/middleeast/hezbollah-weapons-lebanon.html
A Weakened Hizbullah Resists Pressure to Give Up Its Weapons
(New York Times) Neil MacFarquhar - Hizbullah's power has ebbed since Israel eliminated its leadership during the war in Oct.-Nov. 2024. Now Hizbullah is coming under growing pressure from the Lebanese government and its Western and Arab financial backers to surrender whatever is left of that arsenal, though it has so far resisted giving up its weapons. Israeli forces are still destroying arms caches, and the Lebanese Army has removed some weaponry. The Lebanese government must defang the group in order to secure Western funds. Meanwhile, Hizbullah has sought to portray the war as a triumph. "Victory" posters pervade Shiite neighborhoods, while the dead commanders are cast as saints in paradise.