The Council of Ministers has discretionary authority to characterize a crime as affecting external or internal state security or public safety. Given the seriousness of the Dhahr al-Baydar shipment and explosives case and its direct connection to national security and civil peace, it is natural for the government to refer it to the Judicial Council after the justice minister's proposal, especially since the Lebanese government had issued a decision on March 2, 2026 banning all military and security activities of (Hezbollah).
The Judicial Council becomes authorized to consider the Dhahr al-Baydar explosives case if the case is referred to it by the Council of Ministers. The Council has no right to consider the case on its own without a government referral, and it cannot refuse to consider the case after it is referred to it on the grounds of lack of jurisdiction.
The Lebanese government is discussing at its Thursday session the referral of the explosives shipment file seized on the Dhahr al-Baydar road, in the possession of two Hezbollah me…