The Kataeb’s political bureau held its weekly meeting, chaired by party leader Samy Gemayel. After discussing local and regional developments, the Bureau issued the following statement:

The Kataeb Party offers its deepest condolences to the Lebanese Army Command and to the families of the six soldiers killed in Wadi Zebqin, wishing the wounded a speedy recovery. It reaffirms its unwavering support for the military institution, which protects all Lebanese, and renews its call for all necessary measures to be taken to bolster the army’s capabilities in both manpower and equipment so it can fully carry out its duties to the fullest.

The Political Bureau rejects the use of obstructionist tactics and attempts to sow chaos — from inciting unrest in the streets to invoking the National Pact — as pretexts to avoid integrating into the state-building process or to delay the course approved by the government. That process begins with the army presenting its plan to confine all weapons under State's authority within a deadline no later than the 31st of this month. Statements made by Hezbollah officials refusing to surrender their weapons amount to a direct threat to the government, an incitement to overthrow legitimacy, and an attempt to provoke strife.

The Kataeb asserts that the era when such rhetoric prevailed is now over, and that clinging to weapons at this stage serves only to keep Lebanon hostage to war and economic paralysis, while deepening divisions among its citizens. This course is entirely unacceptable and cannot be revived.

The party deems Hezbollah’s invocation of the National Pact to overturn the government’s decision as both misleading and unconstitutional. Illegal weapons constitute, by definition, a violation of the Constitution, and restricting arms to the legitimate authorities is a fundamental principle of any State. This does not require a vote or majority approval, but rather the firm exercise of the executive authority’s powers.

The political bureau links Hezbollah’s rejection of the government’s arms-control decision to explicit Iranian incitement and open interference by Iranian officials in Lebanon’s internal affairs. The Kataeb categorically rejects such statements in both form and substance, and calls on Iran to confine its influence within its own borders, focus on its domestic crises, and allow Lebanon to manage its own affairs free from foreign tutelage and meddling.