Hezbollah Is Down, but Not Out, as Lebanon Faces Pressure to Disarm It NYT | Top Stories By: Aaron Boxerman, Euan Ward, Natan Odenheimer and Hwaida Saad 20 December 2025 at 17:35 The Lebanese militant group has resisted calls to lay down all its arms, risking a return to war with Israel. © David Guttenfelder/The New York TimesHezbollah supporters gathered around the grave of Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s former leader, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike, on the anniversary of his death, in Dahiya, Lebanon, in September.