Lebanon (MNN) — Last week, Lebanon claimed that it completed the first phase of its plan to disarm all non-state groups in southern Lebanon — namely, Hezbollah. However, Israel has its doubts. Disarming Hezbollah was a key point of the U.S.-forwarded ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon in November 2024.
“Just [last] week, they found new warehouses — really big warehouses [of arms],” says Nuna* with Triumphant Mercy Lebanon. “So I don’t really know that this is true, that they have completed the disarmament of the southern part of Lebanon.”
She says time has run out after multiple grace periods in 2025 for Lebanon itself to disarm Hezbollah. The December meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump was also significant, says Nuna.
“We know that the decisions that they made were actually to just finish the job,” she says.
Over the weekend, Israel conducted strikes on at least seven more Hezbollah sites remaining in southern Lebanon. Nuna says targeted Israeli strikes have happened daily for more than six months.
But she believes much more is coming. “It’s not any more airstrikes only, but it’s a land invasion that we’re expecting.”
For the people of Lebanon, this means more fear and uncertainty as they wait for Israel’s next move.
Beirut House of Prayer gathering October 9-11, 2025 (Photo courtesy of Triumphant Mercy Lebanon)
“We don’t know exactly what they’re waiting for, but we’re all watching,” Nuna says, noting that the protests in Iran could change things in Lebanon. “So for Triumphant Mercy, we’re still doing the same — trying to serve people and encourage people and really bringing a sense of security that God is in control. Whatever is happening, God is seated on the throne.”
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“In the Scriptures, we know that Assyria is called the handiwork of the Lord. Assyria is Lebanon and Syria and even part of Iran and Iraq and all these other nations that are in turmoil now,” says Nuna.
“We’ve been praying that God will just remold His handiwork. Handiwork makes us think of pottery. That’s what we’re praying for, is the new thing that God is birthing, that there will be no abortion of this new thing, that there will be no stealing of the destiny of a nation.”
*Pseudonym
Header photo: Stock photo of Odaisseh Sign, Marjaayoun, Bint Jbeil Road, Lebanon, which is in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel. (Photo courtesy of Ahmad Bader via Unsplash).
