President Joseph Aoun participating in a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris, March 28, 2025. (Credit: Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters)
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun told Annahar on Wednesday that there “will be no civil war or return to its past episodes” in Lebanon, amid growing fears over Hezbollah’s disarmament and mass displacement of Shiite residents from the south, the Bekaa Valley, and Beirut’s southern suburbs.
“The circumstances today are different from those of the 1970s,” Aoun stressed.
Lebanon’s civil war, which began on April 13, 1975, lasted fifteen years and left over 150,000 dead, 17,000 missing, and hundreds of thousands displaced or exiled.
Since March 2, more than 1,000 people have been killed, and over a million displaced due to near-daily Israeli airstrikes. Aoun has proposed direct talks with Israel, while Hezbollah continues its ground operations.
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun told Annahar on Wednesday that there “will be no civil war or return to its past episodes” in Lebanon, amid growing fears over Hezbollah’s disarmament and mass displacement of Shiite residents from the south, the Bekaa Valley, and Beirut’s southern suburbs.
“The circumstances today are different from those of the 1970s,” Aoun stressed.
Lebanon’s civil war, which began on April 13, 1975, lasted fifteen years and left over 150,000 dead, 17,000 missing, and hundreds of thousands displaced or exiled.
Since March 2, more than 1,000 people have been killed, and over a million displaced due to near-daily Israeli airstrikes. Aoun has proposed direct talks with Israel, while Hezbollah continues its ground operations.
Israel continues attacks on southern Lebanon, demolishes buildings in Bint Jbeil