Hezbollah acknowledges ownership of a shipment of explosive materials confiscated by the Lebanese authorities

Lebanese Hezbollah acknowledged on Thursday that a shipment of explosive materials confiscated by the Lebanese authorities this week belonged to its ownership.

Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said that a shipment of explosive materials confiscated by the authorities last week belonged to the party, stressing that their use was directed against Israel, after the Prime Minister had confirmed that the authorities would deal firmly with any illegal weapon.

A Lebanese judicial source reported on Saturday that security forces in the Dahr al-Baydar area, where the international road leading to neighboring Syria, last week arrested two men suspected of belonging to Hezbollah while they were transporting 500 kilograms of explosive materials.

Fadlallah announced in a television statement that since the car was stopped, the party had contacted “the security and judicial agencies” and informed them that “the car and its cargo belonged to the resistance.”

He added that the party demanded "the immediate release of the detainees and the recovery of the car and what is inside it" because they are "capabilities" that the party uses against Israel.

The judicial source reported that the shipment included "250 kilograms of TNT explosives and 250 kilograms of C4 (C4) high explosives."

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam commented on Monday on this operation, during which “hundreds of kilograms of explosive materials” were seized on a truck.

He said in a post on the

He added that his government "will deal with the required firmness with any weapon possessed, transferred, or used outside the framework of legality." Since the beginning of October, the authorities have seized three shipments of explosive materials that were being transported from the east of the country.

Following a devastating war that Hezbollah and Israel waged for more than a year and ended with a ceasefire in November 2024, the Lebanese government approved a plan to disarm the party, stipulating that weapons be restricted to the hands of legitimate forces, and assigned the army to implement it.

But Hezbollah, which refuses to disarm, was again involved in the confrontation by launching attacks on Israel in early March in response to the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which brought Lebanon back to war. Until recently, Iran-backed Hezbollah was the most influential political and military force in Lebanon. It had previously received support from Syria, which represented a major supply route for it during the rule of ousted President Bashar al-Assad.

He was accused of assassinations targeting anti-Damascus political and media figures, especially between 2005 and 2008, noting that the International Tribunal for Lebanon issued rulings against individuals affiliated with him in the case of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, 2005.

Salam reminded Monday that C4 was used "in a number of notorious political assassinations in Lebanon's modern history."

In response to these accusations, Fadlallah said, “The prime minister’s haste...to place what happened in the context of preparations for assassinations is a seditious campaign that increases division among the Lebanese,” stressing that the party and its weapons are directed exclusively against Israel.