{"id":2753,"date":"2026-10-15T19:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:04:16","slug":"hezbollah-says-it-owned-confiscated-explosives-meant-to-attack-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2753","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah says it owned confiscated explosives, meant to attack Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Hezbollah lawmaker said on Thursday that \u200bhundreds of kilograms of explosives seized last week by Lebanese security forces belonged to his \u200cgroup, as tensions persist over the government\u2019s push to disarm the group.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lebanese authorities stopped the explosives-laden vehicle at a checkpoint in the eastern Bekaa region last week and arrested two people in the car.<\/p>\n

At the time, authorities did not say who the \u200bvehicle belonged to, prompting widespread worry in Lebanon that the explosives were intended for car bomb \u200bassassinations or other destabilising attacks inside the country.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters at the Lebanese parliament on \u2060Thursday, Hassan Fadlallah said Hezbollah had intended to use the explosives against Israel, whose troops are occupying swathes \u200bof Lebanese territory seized in this year\u2019s war.<\/p>\n

A Hezbollah official and a Lebanese security source told Reuters<\/em> that \u200bthe explosives seized in the car last week were intended to be used in explosive drones targeting Israeli troops.<\/p>\n

Fadlallah said Hezbollah had immediately contacted security agencies to clarify that it owned the vehicle and the cargo, and to demand the materials be returned \u200b, and those detained be released.<\/p>\n

Fadlallah\u2019s acknowledgement reflects Hezbollah\u2019s efforts to continue transporting weapons across Lebanon despite the government\u2019s \u200bvow to bring all arms in the country under state control.<\/p>\n

On March 2, the government specifically banned Hezbollah\u2019s military activities hours \u200cafter the \u2060movement launched rockets at Israel in solidarity with Tehran, pulling Lebanon into the regional war that erupted following US and Israeli strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n

The government decisions were an attempt to reverse the relative freedom Hezbollah had enjoyed for years in transporting military equipment across Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s main arms supply route through Syria was severed when its \u200bally, then-president Bashar al-Assad, \u200bwas ousted in late 2024. \u2060The new Syrian authorities have regularly announced seizures of weapons along their border with Lebanon that they say are intended for Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

Throughout 2025, Lebanese troops seized and \u200bdestroyed Hezbollah weapons depots in southern Lebanon in line with the government\u2019s plan \u200bto exert state \u2060control over all weapons, but that roadmap was put on pause when the new war erupted.<\/p>\n

Under a deal reached through US-brokered talks between Lebanon and Israel this year, Beirut has vowed to disarm Hezbollah, which would in turn \u2060lead to \u200bIsraeli troops gradually withdrawing from Lebanon.<\/p>\n

But Hezbollah has refused to disarm \u200bas long as Israeli forces remain on Lebanese land and Israel has continued carrying out strikes across southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Hezbollah lawmaker said on Thursday that \u200bhundreds of kilograms of explosives seized last week by Lebanese security forces belonged to his \u200cgroup, as tensions persist over the government\u2019s push to disarm the group. Lebanese authorities stopped the explosives-laden vehicle at a checkpoint in the eastern Bekaa region last week and arrested two people in the car. At the time, authorities did not say who the \u200bvehicle belonged to, prompting widespread worry in Lebanon that the explosives were intended for car bomb \u200bassassinations or other destabilising attacks inside the country.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}