Lebanon responds positively to the American plan for the disarmament of Hezbollah

The American envoy to Lebanon defended a response published on Monday by Beirut to a Washington proposal which detailed the complete disarmament of the terrorist group supported by Iran, Hezbollah, in exchange for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from his southern region.

The envoy Thomas Barrack told journalists that he was “incredibly satisfied” with Beirut’s right response to a proposal on June 19 which called for the disarmament of Hezbollah within four months.

“What the government has given us was something spectacular in a very short period of time,” said Barrack after a meeting with Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, who took the first job in January. “I am incredibly satisfied with the answer.”

Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, on the right, meets the American ambassador to Turkey and Syria Barrack’s special envoy, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Monday, July 7, 2025. (Press Office of the Lebanese Presidency via AP)

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The news occurs while the negotiators are also working to end the Israel War against Hamas in the Gaza Strip after Jerusalem was faced with four fronts just last fall with a war against its southern border against Hamas, back and forth missiles with Iran as well as with the Houthis in Yemen, and a campaign that is triggered in Lebanon.

A truce was struck in Lebanon following a sophisticated televertinator bombardment which targeted hundreds of Hezbollah members across the country in September.

Hezbollah has grown up from the southern region of Lebanon and would have given up weapons.

But Reuters’ report also suggested that Hezbollah may not want to abandon all its arms and the details of the US Lebanon agreement which would see the disarmament of the terrorist network remain unknown.

Israeli troops have remained in certain parts of southern Lebanon to counter what it supports is a continuous threat posed by the terrorist network for the Israeli communities who live on the north border, and skirmishes have continued.

Barrack, who is also an American ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy for Syria, said that he thought that in the end, Lebanon and Israel share the same objective – peace.

A TSAhal soldier near the anti -tank missiles that belong to the Hezbollah terrorist group in southern Lebanon. (IDF)

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“The Israelis do not want a war with Lebanon,” he said. “The two countries are trying to give the same thing – the notion of a rescue agreement, the stopping hostilities and a path to peace.”

Barrack also suggested that the Trump administration could seek to add Lebanon to the list of nations which standardized links with Israel under the Abraham agreements – a main policy of Trump during its first administration and that it once again made an absolute priority.

Fox News Digital could not confirm if Beirut is still interested in this level of diplomacy with its neighbor in the South.

But Barrack also suggested that Syria has already started “dialogue” with Israel.

“The dialogue began between Syria and Israel, just as dialogue must be reinvented by Lebanon,” he said. “If you do not want a change, this is not a problem. The rest of the region moves at Mach’s speed and you will be left behind.”

The mourning people react during the funeral of the member of Hezbollah Hassan Ghassan Hijazi, who was killed by an Israeli strike in Tayr Deba in southern Lebanon on January 11, 2025. (Courtney Bonneau / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

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The comments come a week after the Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa’ar, said that Jerusalem “was interested in extending the circle of the Abraham and standardization agreements.

“We have an interest in adding countries, such as Syria and Lebanon, our neighbors, to the circle of peace and normalization-while protecting the essential and secure interests of Israel,” he added, although a large part of the standardization efforts depend on Israel ending his war in the Gaza Strip.

Reuters contributed to this report.