Soldiers from the Lebanese army surveyed the beach where the raid is said to have taken place
BBC NEWS | Published November 3, 2024
The Israeli military said a senior Hezbollah operative was captured in a naval raid in the northern Lebanese town of Batroun on Friday.
An official said special forces had apprehended the individual and taken them back to Israeli territory, in what was described as a “special operation”.
Lebanon’s state news agency said an “unidentified military force” arrived on the beach at dawn, raided a nearby building, and captured one person before leaving by speedboat.
The raid has prompted anger from Lebanese authorities, with the office for Prime Minister Najib Mikati saying he had instructed the foreign ministry to submit a complaint to the UN Security Council.
It added the Lebanese army and UN peacekeeping force Unifil were both investigating the raid – and that Mikati had called for “expedited” results.
Lebanese transport minister Ali Hamieh suggested the raid may have violated UN Security Council resolution 1701, which is intended to end hostilities following on from the Israel-Hezbollah conflict of 2006.
“If it is proven that the kidnapping took place via a naval landing, where is the implementation of Resolution 1701?” he was quoted as saying by local media.
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SOURCE: www.bbc.com
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Israel claims it carried out the operation against what it called a ‘senior Hezbollah operative’ in an ‘unprecedented’ move.
Lebanese soldiers inspect the beach at a reported landing site after the suspected Israeli raid in the northern Lebanese coastal town of Batroun [Ibrahim Chalhoub/AFP]
ALJAZEERA | Published November 3, 2024
Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has called for an immediate probe into Israel’s abduction of a Lebanese man and has instructed his Ministry of Foreign Affairs to submit an urgent complaint before the United Nations Security Council.
Mikati’s office said on Saturday that the Lebanese army and UN peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, are conducting investigations into the raid, adding that he had called for “expedited” results.
The Lebanese response came as the Israeli military confirmed late on Saturday that its naval commandos seized a trainee mariner, whom it described as a “senior operative” of the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
The man, identified by Lebanese officials as Imad Amhaz, was seized by heavily armed Israeli forces from Batroun, a predominantly Christian coastal town north of Beirut.
The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah issued a statement describing the incident as a “Zionist aggression”. The group has not confirmed if the abducted person was its member.
Lebanon’s Minister of Public Works and Transport Ali Hamieh cited the country’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) as saying the abducted man was a civilian naval officer.
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SOURCE: www.aljazeera.com
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