FILE- Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam. AFP
"The army and security forces are requested to immediately begin reinforcing the full imposition of state authority over Beirut Governorate and to monopolise weapons in the hands of legitimate authorities alone," Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said at the end of a cabinet meeting.
Information Minister Paul Morcos said the decision prompted objections from Hezbollah's two ministers in the cabinet.
The Lebanese government banned Hezbollah's military activities at the beginning of March, shortly after Israel resumed its war on Lebanon.
Israel has killed more than 1,700 people in Lebanon in just over a month, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
In the wake of Wednesday's strikes across Lebanon, Salam said the government will submit "an urgent complaint" to the UN Security Council, and he denounced the "dangerous escalation in defiance of all regional and international efforts to stop the war in the region".
Morcos said the government is engaged in diplomatic outreach to secure a ceasefire in Lebanon, after the US and Israel said they did not consider their truce with Iran to include the country.
Iran on Thursday called Lebanon an "inseparable" part of the ceasefire.
"Lebanon and the entire Resistance Axis, as Iran's allies, form an inseparable part of the ceasefire," Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a post on X.
"Ceasefire violations carry explicit costs and STRONG responses," he added.
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