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.”
The head of United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon said on Saturday it was critical to ensure other UN agencies and Lebanese troops could assume the tasks carried out by the force before it begins withdrawing at the end of this year.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Friday they struck an oil tanker sailing under the Togolese flag in the Strait of Hormuz, according to the state news agency IRNA.
At least 112,000 people have been displaced inside Yemen within the last two weeks as fighting continues along the country's west coast amid a renewed conflict, while nearly 3,000 have fled by sea to Djibouti, the United Nations migration agency said on Friday.
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