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Disinformation and false rumours are irresponsible and put peacekeepers at risk,
Ardiel said
We were terrified. They were breaking into the apartment next to ours,
Hussein Delbani saidThe kidnapping of Amhaz took place 100 metres from his place of residence. If it is proven that the kidnapping took place via a naval landing, where is the implementation of resolution 1701?”
Hamieh said
The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] will continue to act wherever necessary to protect the state of Israel and its citizens,
an Israeli military official said in a statementAn unidentified military force carried out a landing operation on the beach of Batroun, and moved … to a chalet near the beach, where it kidnapped the citizen Imad Amhaz and … left by speedboats to the open sea,
Lebanon’s National News Agency reportedI thought a state agency was doing a security operation,
said Delbani, who was displaced from south Lebanon a month ago when the Israel-Hezbollah war erupted
The operative has been transferred to Israeli territory and is currently being investigated,
the military official said, without providing the name of the person in detentionThere is communication with UNIFIL because the Lebanese coast is monitored by it. UNIFIL’s mission is to monitor the Lebanese coast periodically from Naqoura to Arida,
Hamieh said about the UN peacekeeping force – which Israel has repeatedly attacked in recent weeks
This is northern Lebanon; this is not the southern suburbs or the border parts where we have seen Israeli troops on the ground. This is an unprecedented raid,
he saidA security organization abducted a Lebanese citizen at dawn today from the Batroun area in the north of the country. We are investigating the possibility that an Israeli commando unit infiltrated from the sea and carried out the abduction."
A Lebanese security source told Al Jazeera
Everyone get inside. This is Lebanese State Security,
one of the armed men shouted in a Lebanese accent, according to the resident