Force Atlas

A REPORT RECORDED AS SAYING MORE THAN IT SAID. The record said Reuters had reported Quds Force officers auditing and taking direct supervision of Hezbollah's military organisation. The Reuters report of 21 March 2026 names the Revolutionary Guard, not the Quds Force, and its supervision claim rests on one anonymous source. The record now says so, and sets it beside the two further investigations (Le Figaro, Middle East Eye) that report Iranian help with the command and disagree on who authored the move to smaller units. Two further statements were corrected: Hezbollah confirmed the death of the man Israel called its chief of staff in November 2025 but not his office, and the offices widely attached to the commanders killed in 2024 are Hezbollah's own only for a few of them; the rest are Israeli attributions. The Radwan Force record said everything about the force after 2024 came from Israeli sources; in May 2026 a source close to Hezbollah also named an operations commander of the force.

Hamas and other factions approved the Board of Peace disarmament document of 30 July 2026, a roadmap in which a national committee would inventory and store weapons under international verification, tied to Israeli withdrawal. A Hamas official said it would not be implemented if Israel failed its obligations; implementation is not confirmed.

Press reported the army's first deployment into pilot zones under its exclusive control, the vehicle the 26 June 2026 Trilateral Framework makes for Israeli redeployment, coordinated through the Military Coordination Group for Lebanon.

Created under Article 7 of the US–Israel–Lebanon Trilateral Framework signed in Washington on 26 June 2026, "with U.S. support and participation", to ensure the Framework's implementation; its composition beyond the three signatories is not published.

Israel killed the armed wing's commander in a strike on Gaza City on 15 May 2026, and Hamas confirmed his death the next day. Succession since is not published.

The Cabinet ordered the army to begin the north-of-Litani part of its plan at once and to prevent launches and arrest violators under the ban on Hezbollah's military activity. In the war that followed the army repositioned and temporarily withdrew from areas near the Blue Line while keeping some presence south of the Litani (UN).

The Lebanese cabinet banned Hezbollah's military and security activity as unlawful on the day it opened fire on Israel, confining the party to political work and ordering the army and security agencies to prevent launches and arrest violators. The ban changed the organisation's legal standing in Lebanon; how far it has been implemented is not independently established.

The army stated that the first phase of its plan to confine arms to the state had achieved its objectives and that it held operational control south of the Litani except for areas still occupied by Israel; the Cabinet asked for a plan for north of the river. The declaration is the army's own and the plan's content is secret.

Israel said it had killed the organisation's chief of staff in Beirut; Hezbollah confirmed the death without stating his office. The Israeli identification of the post is the IDF's claim.

Resolution 2790 (2025) extended the mandate "for a final time" to 31 December 2026, requested UNIFIL to cease its operations on that date and, within one year from it, to draw down and withdraw, with the Government of Lebanon as the sole provider of security in southern Lebanon. No successor arrangement has been decided.

The cessation of hostilities (S/2024/870) placed only official forces in the area south of the Litani, tasked them to dismantle unauthorised infrastructure and confiscate unauthorised arms starting there, and set a US- and French-supported target of a 10,000-strong deployment in the south; the caretaker cabinet funded the recruitment of 1,500 soldiers that month.

Between July and October 2024 Israel killed two Secretaries-General in succession and the senior military figures whose deaths Hezbollah confirmed, after the pager and radio attacks of 17–18 September; Naim Qassem was elected Secretary-General on 29 October 2024. Hezbollah has named no successor to any military post.

The first eight of 32 M2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles ordered under US security assistance, with M992 ammunition carriers, were handed to the army at the Port of Beirut; the order was valued at more than $100m and later batches followed, supplementing the M113 carriers that form the bulk of its armoured units.