Israeli military captures ‘high-ranking Hezbollah operative’ | EUROtoday
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Un “high-ranking agent” of Hezbollah was captured by Israel, throughout an operation carried out by an elite navy unit in Batroun, north of Beirut, after a army supply in Lebanon reported the kidnapping of a “civilian” by a “naval commando”. “During a special operation carried out by “Shayetet 13” (“Flottilla-13”, the navy commandos) within the Lebanese city of Batroun, a high-ranking Hezbollah operative was apprehended,” a army official stated in a press launch.
ALSO READ Middle East: Lebanon accuses Israel of refusing a truce after new strikes on BeirutThe man, whose identify was not made public, “was transferred to Israeli territory” and “is currently under investigation,” added the official, talking on situation of anonymity. . He is taken into account an “expert in his field” and is being questioned by a army intelligence unit, he continued, with out elaborating.
A grievance is being filed
According to Ani, citing residents, “a military force” carried out a “landing from the sea on the coast of Batroun”. She “went with all her armament to a bungalow near the beach, kidnapping a Lebanese man before heading out into the open sea on a speedboat.” An AFP photographer in Batroun noticed Lebanese troopers inspecting the coast on Saturday, close to the constructing the place the person was kidnapped.
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A supply near the case assured AFP that the kidnapped man was coaching on the Institute of Maritime Sciences and Technology (Marsati) and was round thirty years previous. He resided in Institute lodging. This is the primary time that such an operation has occurred because the begin, greater than a yr in the past, of violence between the Lebanese Islamist motion Hezbollah and Israel, who entered into open battle on September 23.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati requested the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to file a grievance with the UN Security Council, based on an announcement issued by his workplace, specifying that the Lebanese military and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon had been additionally finishing up investigations.
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