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BEIRUT - General Joseph Aoun , the Lebanese army commander who was elected president on Thursday, kept his military on the sidelines of a recent war between Israel and armed group Hezbollah, ordering it to prioritise civil peace even as troops were killed.
He also kept it out of a more than year-long war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed group that had long expressed reservations about Aoun's candidacy. More than 40 Lebanese troops were killed in Israeli strikes over that period but the army did not clash with Israel directly. Aoun has a key role in shoring up a 60-day ceasefire brokered by Washington and Paris in November. The terms require the Lebanese military to deploy into south Lebanon as Israeli troops and Hezbollah withdraw forces.
He did not speak about his candidacy for the presidency in any public forum and did not make the rounds to Lebanon's divided political factions to shore up support, like other candidates typically do before an election.Aoun was born in Sin el-Fil near Beirut and enrolled in the army in 1983 during Lebanon's civil war. His first assignment was as a platoon commander in the army rangers in 1985 and his training included two infantry officer courses in the United States.
In an unusually political statement for an army commander, Aoun criticised ruling politicians over Lebanon's financial collapse in 2021, saying soldiers were going hungry along with the rest of the population and asking politicians "what do you intend to do?"
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