BBC News Can Lebanon disarm Hezbollah? | Global News Podcast

The Lebanese army says it’s completed the first phase of a plan that would see the militia and political group Hezbollah give up its weapons.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called these efforts “an encouraging beginning”, but says they are insufficient.

BBC Arabic’s Carine Torbey tells us what’s happening on the ground, and how Hezbollah gained so much power and influence in Lebanon.

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