{"id":50537,"date":"2026-04-14T07:20:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/lebanon-seeks-peace-but-hezbollah-needs-to-be-convinced-first\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:20:05","slug":"lebanon-seeks-peace-but-hezbollah-needs-to-be-convinced-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/lebanon-seeks-peace-but-hezbollah-needs-to-be-convinced-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon seeks peace, but Hezbollah needs to be convinced first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Since coming to power, President Aoun has defended a policy he calls the &#8220;state monopoly on arms&#8221;. As part of the ceasefire deal in 2024, Hezbollah had agreed to remove its fighters and weapons from southern Lebanon which, for decades, had effectively been under the group&#8217;s control. Hezbollah also holds sway over Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs, known as Dahieh, and the eastern Bekaa Valley, where part of its arsenal is located, but Naim Qassem, its secretary-general, has rejected discussing a full, nationwide disarmament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cr51l794mlyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since coming to power, President Aoun has defended a policy he calls the &#8220;state monopoly on arms&#8221;. As part of the ceasefire deal in 2024, Hezbollah had agreed to remove its fighters and weapons from southern Lebanon which, for decades, had effectively been under the group&#8217;s control. Hezbollah also holds sway over Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50539,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50537\/revisions\/50539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}