Lebanon to file UN complaint over Israel’s abduction of its national.

 

Lebanon to file UN complaint over Israel’s

 abduction

 of its national.

   

Israel claims it carried out the operation against what it called a ‘senior Hezbollah operative’ in an ‘unprecedented’ move.

Lebanese soldiers inspect the beach at a reported landing site after the suspected Israeli raid in the northern Lebanese coastal town of Batroun [Ibrahim Chalhoub/AFP]

Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has called for an immediate probe into Israel’s abduction of a Lebanese man and has instructed his Ministry of Foreign Affairs to submit an urgent complaint before the United Nations Security seemore

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The Lebanese response came as the Israeli military confirmed late on Saturday that its naval commandos seized a trainee mariner, whom it described as a “senior operative” of the Lebanese group Hezbollah.

The man, identified by Lebanese officials as Imad Amhaz, was seized by heavily armed Israeli forces from Batroun, a predominantly Christian coastal town north of Beirut.

The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah issued a statement describing the incident as a “Zionist aggression”. The group has not confirmed if the abducted person was its seemore