Explainer-Can Lebanon disarm Hezbollah? – AL-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

(Reuters) -Lebanon’s cabinet has told the army to draw up a plan to establish a state monopoly on arms in a challenge to the Iran-backed Shi’ite Muslim group Hezbollah, which rejects calls to disarm.

WHY IS THERE A PUSH TO DISARM HEZBOLLAH NOW?

Israel pummelled Hezbollah last year in a war sparked by the conflict in Gaza, killing many of its top brass and 5,000 of its fighters before a November truce brokered by the United States.

That deal committed Lebanon to restricting arms to six specific…