According to the American news site Axios, this individual is a member of Hezbollah and was captured by the Israeli army.
And «commando naval» unidentified kidnapped a Lebanese man in the coastal town of Batroun north of Beirut, a military source in Lebanon, a country torn by a war between Israel and Hezbollah, told AFP on Saturday. Without revealing the identity of the kidnapped individual, the Lebanese national news agency Ani also reported this incident which occurred Friday at dawn in this town located about fifty kilometers from Beirut.
“A naval commando kidnapped a civilian, an investigation is underway into the circumstances of the kidnapping”the Lebanese military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP. “We are also investigating to see if it is an Israeli (force)” she clarified.
Contacted by the AFP office in Jerusalem, the Israeli army said “check” this information. According to the American news site Axios, this individual would be Imad Amhaz, “a high-ranking member of Hezbollah’s naval force”and was reportedly captured by the Israeli army. The latter, continues the Axios journalist, counts “question him [pour] learn more about naval operations » Shiite militia supported by Iran.
“Military force”
According to the Ani agency, citing residents, “a military force” carried out a “landing from the sea on the coast of Batroun”. Elle “went with all her weapons to a bungalow near the beach, kidnapping a Lebanese man before heading out to sea on a speedboat”.
A source close to the case in Batroun assured AFP that the kidnapped man was training at the Institute of Maritime Sciences and Technology (Marsati) and was around thirty years old. He resided in Institute accommodation.
The Christian town of Batroun has so far been spared the devastating Israeli bombings which since September 23 have mainly targeted Hezbollah strongholds in the south and east of Lebanon as well as in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
More than 1,900 people have been killed since that date in Lebanon, according to an AFP count based on data from the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
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