BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese authorities detained several people who
were allegedly planning to launch rockets into Israel and seized
the weapons, the military said Sunday.
The army said the arrests were linked to other detentions
announced earlier this week. It added that as military
intelligence was investigating that case they got information
that a new rocket attack was being planned.
The army said troops raided an apartment near the southern port
city of Sidon and seized some of the rockets and the launchers
and detained several people who were involved in the operation.
It said they were referred to judicial authorities.
Authorities on Wednesday detained several people, including a
number of Palestinians, who were allegedly involved in firing
rockets toward Israel in two separate attacks in late March that
triggered intense Israeli airstrikes on parts of Lebanon.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group denied at the time that it was behind
the firing of rockets.
Meanwhile on Sunday, a series of Israeli strikes in southern
Lebanon killed two people, the Lebanese Civil Defense said in a
statement. The Israeli army said in a statement that it killed
Hussein Ali Nasr, whom it described as the deputy head of
Hezbollah’s Unit 4400. Israel said Nasr helped smuggle weapons
and funds into Lebanon via “Iranian operatives,” including
through Beirut airport.
In a separate incident, three Lebanese soldiers were killed
after ammunition a Lebanese army vehicle was carrying exploded,
the army said in a statement. The circumstances in which the
explosion happened were unclear.
Since a November ceasefire ended a 14-month war between Israel
and Hezbollah, Israeli airstrikes have killed scores of people
in Lebanon including civilians and Hezbollah members. Israel
says it’s targeting Hezbollah holdouts in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem said Friday that its fighters will
not disarm as long as Israeli troops remain in southern Lebanon
and the Israeli air force regularly violates Lebanese air space.
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