Imad Amhaz, who was captured by Israeli commandos in Batroun on Friday, has been taken to Israeli territory, where he is now under investigation by Unit 504, an intelligence branch of the Israeli army, an Israeli military official told CNN on Saturday.
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Imad Amhaz, who was captured by Israeli commandos in Batroun on Friday, has been taken to Israeli territory, where he is now under investigation by Unit 504, an intelligence branch of the Israeli army, an Israeli military official told CNN on Saturday.
Members of Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 force captured Amhaz at dawn on Friday on the coast of Batroun in northern Lebanon.
The Israeli military has previously described Shayetet 13’s missions as involving “strategic sabotage activity across enemy lines, including damaging vital structures during wartime and the enemy’s seaports.”
This marks the first reported Israeli operation of its kind since the start of the war between Hezbollah and Israel on Oct. 8, 2023.
On Saturday, an investigation was launched in Lebanon into the case.
After the circumstances of the incident remained unclear throughout the day, an Israeli military official, quoted by the Army Radio, claimed that the operation had been conducted by the "13th force" which "captured a member of Hezbollah."
On Sunday morning, Amhaz' father denied accusations of his son’s ties to Hezbollah, asserting in a statement, that “Imad is a civilian maritime captain.”
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun arrived in Ankara on Thursday for an official visit during which he is due to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss economic and security cooperation.
A new Jewish-Arab political party is courting young voters ahead of Israel's October election. But critics say it risks weakening the bid by the already underrepresented Arab minority to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rightist government.
A group of Lebanese lawyers filed a complaint with the country's top prosecutor on Wednesday requesting an investigation into banker Antoun Sehnaoui over a dinner he allegedly co-hosted in Washington that was attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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