Fire ball in the hands of the army and depends on it to ensure stability

Nazir Reda wrote in “Al -Sharq Al -Awsat”: The practical tasks of the army are shortened in recent weeks, the size of the challenges raised on its shoulders, and while the army mourned two soldiers who were killed by the explosion of an Israeli march that they were working to dismantle after their fall in the south, other units were gambling weapons and military equipment from the Palestinian camps, while other units were spreading on the border with Syria and disintegrating a drug manufacturing laboratory Parallel to strengthening the spread south of the Litani River.

Several army is about 75,000 soldiers, deploying on various Lebanese territories and at the northern, eastern and southern borders.
A military source says that these elements “multiply their tasks and varies between security missions at home and preserving civil peace, pursuing those who violate security, drug dealers and combating terrorism”, in addition to preventing smuggling and illegal infiltration into Lebanese territory at the northern and eastern borders, and enhancing the deployment of the army in the South Litani sector.
Lebanon is awaiting the applied plan that the army prepares for an exclusive weapon decision in Lebanon, which will be presented to the Council of Ministers next September 2, amid government assurances to Asharq Al -Awsat that the plan will be “under the ceiling of non -collision”, at a time when the army continues its tasks in the south, where about 7,000 members of the Lebanese army are currently deployed in the South Litani sector, which is a number that can be high in the future according to the decision of the Council Fire, as a military source confirms.
In parallel, the military units work to collect munitions from the remnants of war, despite their risks.
A military source says that ammunition experts and explosives at the engineering regiment “deal with these ammunition according to the instructions in force in this regard with the need to stress the application of the required precautionary measures, and in accordance with the estimation of the risk by the expert and the extent of their proximity to the residential areas”, within the priorities of “ensuring the caution of citizens and workers in the field of treatment of wars waste due to the high risks of it and its impact on daily life For citizens, “” working with maximum energy to be able to address the largest possible number of wars, securing the safe return of citizens, and supporting the deployment of army units. ” Usually, the priority is for the inhabited targeted areas, then the targeted agricultural areas that the citizens and the villages are invested, all the way to the forest areas.
The military source indicates that there is a “coordination between the Lebanese army and the Syrian Staff to control the smuggling operations across the common border through the Cooperation and Coordination Office, as this coordination is witnessing an evolution in the field of border control and combating smuggling, through joint security measures and official visits. However, geographical and security challenges require continued cooperation and coordination between the two countries to ensure border security.
The source says: “The main challenge is to preserve the sovereignty of the state, and prevent any penetration of borders, whether by armed groups, or smugglers. Therefore, we are working to take advantage of modern monitoring and advanced monitoring techniques available in the land border regiments in order to control the borders and protect Lebanese citizens in the border areas.