The United States continues to put pressure on Lebanon to disarm the group that Washington classifies as terrorist. Two sources, one security and the other a Lebanese official, added that the shortage of explosives, which had not been reported in any previous reports, did not prevent the army from accelerating the pace of inspection missions to search for hidden weapons in the south, near Israel. According to the sources, the Lebanese army has blown up a large number of Hezbollah's weapons depots to the point that its stock of explosives has run out, as it races against the clock to meet the deadline of the end of the current year to confine weapons to the state under the ceasefire agreement reached with Israel. Morgan Ortagus, the U.S. President's Special Envoy's deputy, is currently in the region.
