{"id":113316,"date":"2024-10-12T13:41:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T06:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113316"},"modified":"2024-10-12T13:41:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T06:41:44","slug":"as-hezbollah-and-israel-battle-on-the-border-lebanons-army-watches-from-the-sidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113316","title":{"rendered":"As Hezbollah and Israel battle on the border, Lebanon&#8217;s army watches from the sidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BEIRUT (AP) \u2014 Since <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-gaza-news-09-30-2024-83ea5f243688f309754ec74850de4238\">Israel launched its ground invasion<\/a><\/span> of Lebanon, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-lebanon-what-to-know-hezbollah-incursion-c44358cb4c70db69bdab4b254cb2ed76\">Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants have clashed<\/a><\/span> along the border while <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-lebanon-europe-army-business-5354ef5a5345acc08fe0b146202f8282\">the Lebanese army<\/a><\/span> has largely stood on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time the national army has found itself watching war at home from the discomfiting position of bystander. <\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s widely beloved army is one of the few institutions that <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-unrest-6a1a21d60f511bdabe6d4f7df45797cf\">bridge the country\u2019s sectarian<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-samir-geagea-hezbollah-israel-gaza-01ea179f1b6f5a4b131a2b1f715d883f\">political divides<\/a><\/span>. Several army commanders have become president, and the current commander, Gen. Joseph Aoun, is widely regarded as one of the front-runners to step in when the deadlocked parliament fills a two-year vacuum and names a president.<\/p>\n<p>But with an aging arsenal and no air defenses, and battered by five years of economic crisis, the national army is ill-prepared to defend Lebanon against either aerial bombardment or a ground offensive by a well-equipped modern army like Israel\u2019s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-c40000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture data-crop=\"imgEn-medium-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/7482ad7\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/8640x5760+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fa5%2Fd9%2F7e9cceebfdf8a7207c43e0aff5b9%2F071871ae49244b9c9122d31661f52973 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/d2ab8dc\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/8640x5760+0+0\/resize\/1198x798!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fa5%2Fd9%2F7e9cceebfdf8a7207c43e0aff5b9%2F071871ae49244b9c9122d31661f52973 2x\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/7482ad7\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/8640x5760+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fa5%2Fd9%2F7e9cceebfdf8a7207c43e0aff5b9%2F071871ae49244b9c9122d31661f52973\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<div class=\"Figure-content\">\n<div class=\"Figure-content-text\"><bsp-read-more class=\"ReadMore\" data-more-button-text=\"Read More\" data-less-button-text=\"Read Less\" data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-limit=\"110\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\"><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\">\n<p>FILE &#8211; Flames and smoke rise from an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo\/Bilal Hussein, File)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The army is militarily overshadowed by Hezbollah. The Lebanese army has about 80,000 troops, with around 5,000 of them deployed in the south. <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/what-is-hezbollahisrael-lebanon-b4daa0a6084df27099cef45b59120034\">Hezbollah<\/a><\/span> has more than 100,000 fighters, according to the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hezbollah-nasrallah-lebanon-israel-airstrikes-haret-hreik-7d89051bb420991cee29398243c250fe\">militant group\u2019s late leader, Hassan Nasrallah<\/a><\/span>. Its arsenal \u2014 built with support from Iran \u2014 is also more advanced.<\/p>\n<h2>A cautious initial response<\/h2>\n<p>Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters have been clashing since Oct. 8, 2023, when the Lebanese militant group began firing rockets over the border in support of its ally <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war\">Hamas in Gaza<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, Israel has conducted a major aerial bombardment of Lebanon and a ground invasion that it says aims to push Hezbollah back from the border and allow displaced residents of northern Israel to return.<\/p>\n<p>As Israeli troops made their first forays across the border and Hezbollah responded with rocket fire, Lebanese soldiers withdrew from observation posts along the frontier and repositioned about 5 kilometers (3 miles) back. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" 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src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/29209cd\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/8640x5760+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fb7%2F3b%2Fcf14feffa74e9fc3b5cacdb514d9%2Fdb978aaa8c0b4f23bf014ebcc9ac0da7\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<div class=\"Figure-content\">\n<div class=\"Figure-content-text\"><bsp-read-more class=\"ReadMore\" data-more-button-text=\"Read More\" data-less-button-text=\"Read Less\" data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-limit=\"110\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\"><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\">\n<p>FILE &#8211; A man uses his mobile phone as flames and smoke rise at the scene of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo\/Bilal Hussein, File)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So far, Israeli forces have not advanced that far. The only direct clashes between the two national armies were on Oct. 3, when Israeli tank fire hit a Lebanese army position in the area of Bint Jbeil, killing a soldier, and on Friday, when <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/srael-palestinians-hamas-war-lebanon-hezbollah-11-10-2024-9dd58a9fea9c2de963edbc31ba90bb1a\">two soldiers were killed in an airstrike<\/a><\/span> in the same area. The Lebanese army said it returned fire both times.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s army declined to comment on how it will react if Israeli ground forces advance farther.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts familiar with the army\u2019s workings said that, should the Israeli incursion reach the current army positions, Lebanese troops would put up a fight \u2014 but a limited one.<\/p>\n<p>The army\u2019s \u201cnatural and automatic mission is to defend Lebanon against any army that may enter Lebanese territory,\u201d said former Lebanese Army Gen. 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Thursday\u2019s Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo\/Hassan Ammar, File)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Israeli and Lebanese armies are \u2018a total overmatch\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The current Israeli invasion of Lebanon is its fourth into the neighboring country in the past 50 years. In most of the previous invasions, the Lebanese army played a similarly peripheral role.<\/p>\n<p>The one exception, said Aram Nerguizian, a senior associate with the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, was in 1972, when Israel attempted to create a 20-kilometer (12-mile) buffer zone to push back Palestinian Liberation Organization fighters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-350000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture data-crop=\"imgEn-medium-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/ae61b26\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5472x3648+0+0\/resize\/800x533!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fcd%2Fe8%2Fe9fedbc54c5b225d0271cb66b784%2F697b5dad58f147debfc2ecaf4943552e 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srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/0476cc9\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5472x3648+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fcd%2Fe8%2Fe9fedbc54c5b225d0271cb66b784%2F697b5dad58f147debfc2ecaf4943552e 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/e27ec86\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5472x3648+0+0\/resize\/1198x798!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fcd%2Fe8%2Fe9fedbc54c5b225d0271cb66b784%2F697b5dad58f147debfc2ecaf4943552e 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/0476cc9\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5472x3648+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fcd%2Fe8%2Fe9fedbc54c5b225d0271cb66b784%2F697b5dad58f147debfc2ecaf4943552e 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hit by an Israeli strike as workers covered it on a truck, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo\/Mohammed Zaatari, File)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At that time, Nerguizian said, the Lebanese army successfully slowed the pace of the Israeli advance and \u201cbought time for political leadership in Beirut to seek the intervention of the international community to pressure Israel for a cease-fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the internal situation in Lebanon \u2014 and the army\u2019s capabilities \u2014 deteriorated with the outbreak of a 15-year civil war in 1975, during which both Israeli and Syrian forces occupied parts of the country. <\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah was the only faction that was allowed to keep its weapons after the civil war, for the stated goal of resisting Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon \u2014 which ended in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>By 2006, when Hezbollah and Israel fought a bruising monthlong war, the Lebanese army \u201chad not been able to invest in any real-world post-war modernization, had no ability to deter Israeli air power\u201d and \u201cwas left completely exposed,\u201d Nerguizian said. \u201cThe few times that the (Lebanese army) and Israeli forces did engage militarily, there was total overmatch.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-220000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture data-crop=\"imgEn-medium-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/ae61b26\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5472x3648+0+0\/resize\/800x533!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fcd%2Fe8%2Fe9fedbc54c5b225d0271cb66b784%2F697b5dad58f147debfc2ecaf4943552e 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srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/0476cc9\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5472x3648+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fcd%2Fe8%2Fe9fedbc54c5b225d0271cb66b784%2F697b5dad58f147debfc2ecaf4943552e 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/e27ec86\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5472x3648+0+0\/resize\/1198x798!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fcd%2Fe8%2Fe9fedbc54c5b225d0271cb66b784%2F697b5dad58f147debfc2ecaf4943552e 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/0476cc9\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5472x3648+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fcd%2Fe8%2Fe9fedbc54c5b225d0271cb66b784%2F697b5dad58f147debfc2ecaf4943552e 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hit by an Israeli strike as workers covered it on a truck, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo\/Mohammed Zaatari, File)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>International aid has been a mixed blessing<\/h2>\n<p>After the 2011 outbreak of civil war in neighboring Syria and the rise of the Islamic State militant group there, the Lebanese army saw a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-us-russia-sdf-dier-elzour-iran-islamic-state-b34283664f94a99953bbd7499f3dab86\">new influx of military aid<\/a><\/span>. It successfully battled against IS on Lebanon\u2019s border in 2017, although not alone \u2014 Hezbollah was simultaneously attacking the group on the other side of the border.<\/p>\n<p>When <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-poverty-world-bank-crisis-imf-8bf2c6932d4a09d530ebed6c0fb255eb\">Lebanon\u2019s financial system and currency collapsed<\/a><\/span> in 2019, the army took a hit. It had no budget to buy weapons and maintain its existing supplies, vehicles and aircraft. An average soldier\u2019s salary is now worth around $220 per month, and many resorted to working second jobs. At one point, the United States and Qatar both gave a monthly subsidy for soldiers\u2019 salaries.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. had been a primary funder of the Lebanese army before the crisis. It has given some $3 billion in military aid since 2006, according to the State Department, which said in a statement that it aims \u201cto enable the Lebanese military to be a stabilizing force against regional threats\u201d and \u201cstrengthen Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty, secure its borders, counter internal threats, and disrupt terrorist facilitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-israel-hezbollah-united-states-8bed0f7a37b5059ba4c94552ff750f34\">Joe Biden\u2019s administration<\/a><\/span> has also touted the Lebanese army as a key part of any diplomatic solution to the current war, with hopes that an increased deployment of its forces would supplant Hezbollah in the border area.<\/p>\n<p>But that support has limits. 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(AP Photo\/Bilal Hussein, File)<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In Lebanon, many believe that the U.S. has blocked the army from obtaining more advanced weaponry that might allow it to defend against Israel \u2014 America\u2019s strongest ally in the region and the recipient of at least $17.9 billion in U.S. military aid in the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-war-one-year-anniversary-cf123f95609051e8e8eaf6aebe661b6a\">year since the war in Gaza began<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is my personal opinion that the United States does not allow the (Lebanese) military to have advanced air defense equipment, and this matter is related to Israel,\u201d said Walid Aoun, a retired Lebanese army general and military analyst.<\/p>\n<p>Nerguizian said the perception is \u201cnot some 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