The Lebanese Army has accused the Israeli army of voicing “false claims” regarding the Lebanese military's operations in the area south of the Litani River in an attempt to “cast doubt on its ability to carry out its assigned tasks.”

Israeli Army Arabic-language spokesperson Lt. Col. Ella Waweya had released footage on Tuesday on the X platform allegedly showing Hezbollah operatives loading weapons onto a truck in order to move them from a site in the southern town of Kafra. She accused the Lebanese Army of failing to clear south Lebanon of Hezbollah's arms and of coordinating with Hezbollah to help them move their weapons out of the Kafra site.

The Lebanese Army however clarified that military units had worked on clearing the Kafra site from December 2025 until March 16, 2026, when they halted work in the facility and evacuated the area at the request of the Mechanism committee due to Israeli threats to bomb it during the latest Israeli war on Hezbollah. The army noted that it had informed the committee that the mission had not yet been completed and that a quantity of military equipment and ammunition remained inside the facility, which was subsequently targeted by Israel.

“Despite repeated demands by the army to secure the resumption of work to complete the evacuation of the facility, these efforts were met with Israeli rejection until military units resumed their mission on August 15, 2026, (after the war), in coordination with the Mechanism. They continued working...

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