2 Lebanese soldiers killed as airstrike hits near their checkpoint
Two Lebanese soldiers were killed and three others wounded in an Israeli airstrike that hit a building near a Lebanese Army checkpoint in Kafra, Bint Jbeil province, the Lebanese Army said Friday.
Since Israel launched its ground invasion of Lebanon, Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants have clashed along the border while the Lebanese army has largely stood on the sidelines.
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 km back.
On Oct. 3, a Lebanese soldier was killed and another injured in an Israeli strike in Taybeh during rescue operations. On Sept. 30, another Lebanese soldier was killed by an Israeli drone targeting a Lebanese Army checkpoint in Wazzani.
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The poor Lebanese soldier is truly the unsung hero of this miserable nonsensical journey by all sides. He endures this on a couple of hundred dollars a month, less appreciated and quickly forgotten. The Army's leadership places these soldiers at risk and the Israeli do not have to differentiate as they see soldiers and not people trying to survive in a state of anarchy.
