Lebanon is sending more police to areas vacated by Israel but will not deploy the Lebanese army in the border region for now, this according to Lebanon’s prime minister. The UN must first verify the Israeli withdrawal, completed yesterday, and deploy peacekeepers, Prime Minister Selim al-Hoss said in a statement. Hundreds of policemen have been sent to the former Israeli-occupied areas, but the government has refused to send the army, saying its military will not act as a border guard for Israel.