The UN Secretary-General António Guterres says that peacekeeping forces have discovered more than 100 weapons caches belonging to the Shia militia Hezbollah and their allies in southern Lebanon since the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah began.
He adds that the presence of armed personnel and weapons that do not belong to the Lebanese military or the UN mission Unifil violates a decision from the UN Security Council that ended the war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006.
After the outbreak of the Gaza War in 2023, the situation in southern Lebanon also escalated into open war in October last year. After a number of devastating weeks with bombings and attacks, an agreement on a ceasefire was reached at the end of November.
