Hezbollah ministers, Shi’ite allies walk out of Lebanese cabinet meeting over disarmament proposal, sources say

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah ministers and Muslim Shi’ite allies in the Lebanese cabinet have withdrawn from a cabinet meeting on Thursday in protest at discussions on a proposal to disarm Hezbollah, three Lebanese political sources told Reuters.

Lebanon’s cabinet told the army on Tuesday to draw up a plan to establish a state monopoly on arms in a challenge to Hezbollah, which rejects calls to disarm.

(Reporting by Laila Bassam; Editing by Hugh Lawson)