{"id":28624,"date":"2026-01-30T06:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=28624"},"modified":"2026-01-30T06:11:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:11:31","slug":"aouns-tightrope-daily-israeli-attacks-and-hezbollahs-refusal-to-disarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=28624","title":{"rendered":"Aoun\u2019s tightrope: Daily Israeli attacks and Hezbollah\u2019s refusal to disarm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pressures on the Lebanese president to disarm the group may soon escalate if his focus on diplomacy does not succeed.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Israeli strike hits Qennarit, in the Sidon district of south Lebanon, on January 21, 2026 [Screenshot via AFP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Lebanon\u2019s President Joseph Aoun could be facing the most critical period of his one-year tenure in the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February, Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) chief of staff Rodolphe Haykal is set to visit Washington, DC. Also in February, the LAF will present a plan for phase two of Hezbollah\u2019s disarmament. Then in March, an international conference will be held in Paris in support of the Lebanese army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These events come amid increasing United States and Israeli pressure on Lebanon and on Aoun, a former armed forces chief himself, to continue the effort to disarm Hezbollah. They also come as Israeli attacks<\/a> in south Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley intensify, and as Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem states<\/a> that his group will not accept disarmament north of the Litani River, which flows across south Lebanon, unless Israel starts to abide by the ceasefire agreed in November 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel has been violating the truce with bombardments on a near-daily basis, and continues to occupy parts of the south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This leaves Aoun caught between a rock and a hard place, facing the difficult task of disarming Hezbollah without pushing Lebanon into renewed civil conflict, which no one in a scarred nation wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is also being relied on to get Israel, which has violated the November 2024 ceasefire more than 11,000 times, to stop attacking the country at a time when the LAF is currently undermanned, underfunded and underequipped to deploy across south Lebanon, let alone militarily confront the Israelis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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