The atmosphere ahead of the Cabinet session, where Army Commander General Rudolf Heikal is expected to present his plan regarding the withdrawal of Hezbollah’s weapons, “does not indicate any positives, with a high likelihood of moving into a difficult phase open to all possibilities,” according to senior political sources.

This is due, as told to “Al Joumhouria,” to the “insistence of some internal parties to proceed with the decision to withdraw the weapons to the end, despite objections from the Amal Movement and Hezbollah duo.” Added to this is the accumulation of escalation factors that appear deliberate, reinforced by a major pressure campaign that has accelerated intensively in recent days by the same Arab and non-Arab external parties, who pressured to adopt the decisions to withdraw the weapons and approve the objectives of the American paper, and sent direct and indirect correspondences to some responsible levels, explicitly warning of the consequences of retreat, and strongly pushing for the government’s decision to withdraw Hezbollah’s weapons to be implemented quickly regardless of the results.