Beirut – The Lebanese authorities arrested several people who allegedly planned to launch rockets to Israel and trusted the weapons, the military said on Sunday.
The army said the arrests were linked to other arrests announced earlier this week. He added that as military intelligence was investigating that case, they obtained information that a new rocket attack was being planned.
The army said the troops assaulted an apartment near the Port City of southern Sidon and confiscated some of the rockets and the pitchers and arrested several people involved in the operation. He said they were referred to the judicial authorities.
Authorities on Wednesday stopped several peopleincluding several Palestinians, which were supposedly involved in shooting rockets towards Israel in two separate attacks at the end of March that triggered intense Israeli air attacks In parts of Lebanon. The Hezbollah of Lebanon denied at that time behind the rocket shot.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, a series of Israeli attacks in the south of Lebanon killed two people, Lebanese civil defense said in a statement. The Israeli army said in a statement that killed Hussein Ali Nasr, whom he described as the attached chief of Hezbollah unit. Israel said that Nasr helped smuggle weapons and funds in Lebanon through “Iranian operations”, even through the Beirut airport.
In a separate incident, three Lebanese soldiers were killed after ammunition that an Lebanese army vehicle was exploited, the army said in a statement. The circumstances in which the explosion occurred were not clear.
Since a high November fire ended a 14 -month war between Israel and Hezbollah, Israeli air attacks have killed dozens of people in Lebanon, including civilians and members of Hezbollah. Israel says he points to Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon.
Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem said Friday what is it The fighters will not disassemble While Israeli troops remain in the south of Lebanon and the Israeli Air Force regularly violates the Lebanese airspace.
