The increasingly pro-Syria government in Lebanon has worked out a compromise draft that implicitly allows Hizbullah to keep its weapons. The proposed agreement is subject to approval by the Lebanese legislature. The draft notes the "right of Lebanon's people, the army and the resistance to liberate all its territories." Former government policy ordered the dissolution of all militias, but Hizbullah retained its right to keep weapons.

United Nations Interim Forces (UNIFIL) refused to carry out a clause in the ceasefire resolution that ended the Second Lebanon War and called for disarming non-governmental forces.