Trump: 'Hezbollah is a problem' in Lebanon

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday night that "Hezbollah has been a problem" in Lebanon, stating that Washington "will see what happens there" and that certain allied countries are ready to intervene and "clean out" the situation if the United States decides to do so.

"We have legitimate peace in the Middle East, for the first time in 3,000 years, and we have 59 countries backing it. We'll see what happens with Hamas. We'll see what happens with Hezbollah," Trump said from the White House during a press conference.

"Regardless, we have countries that want to go in and clean that out if we want them to do it .... Hezbollah in Lebanon has been a problem," he added. These comments echo those made last Friday, when the American president said that some countries want to "intervene and deal with Hezbollah" and that they might "have to do it" at some point.

"We will see what happens there. But there is legitimate large-scale peace in the Middle East. And if there weren't, we wouldn't have been able to make all of those deals that we've made with the various countries. They would have never been able to do that," he also said.

Despite the November 2024 cease-fire, Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory remain daily, and Israel regularly accuses Hezbollah of trying to rebuild its military wing, weakened by war.

The Lebanese government has, for its part, decided to regain the monopoly on weapons.

While the party refuses the idea of disarmament throughout the country, it does not oppose operations to dismantle its infrastructure in the south. Washington and Tel Aviv, for their part, are urging Beirut to speed up the process of Hezbollah's disarmament.