Army refuses to raid houses in south in search for Hezbollah weapons, report says

Israel is pressing the Lebanese army to search private homes in south Lebanon for weapons, a media report said, after Lebanon's government tasked the army with a plan to disarm Hezbollah.

The report, quoting Lebanese and Israeli officials, said Israel requested these house-to-house raids in October during meetings of the ceasefire monitoring committee, adding that Lebanon has not accepted to do so.

"They're demanding that we do house-to-house searches, and we won't do that... we aren't going to do things their way," the report quoted a Lebanese official as saying, adding that the army has already succeeded in locating more than 50 tunnels and has confiscated over 50 guided missiles and hundreds of other weapons.