Posted on 11/03/2024 11:06:41 AM PST by Libloather
Israel’s equivalent of the elite Navy SEALs stormed a beach in Lebanon over the weekend, snatched a nearby senior Hezbollah operative and then raced off with him in a speedboat, officials say.
The weekend operation involved commandos with the Israel Defense Force’s Shayetet 13 force, who were deployed along the coast in northern Lebanon and conducted the raid on a Hezbollah facility in Batroun, CNN reports.
The highly specialized soldiers rushed the beach to reach the terrorists’ hold and capture Imad Amhaz, throwing the suspected Hezbollah senior official into a speedboat and carting him off, according to the IDF.
Amhaz, who is believed to be a “significant source of knowledge” on Hezbollah’s naval force, was handed over to Israeli interrogators so they could try to get him to divulge details of the terror group’s maritime operations.
Hezbollah condemned Israel’s actions in Batroun but did not confirm if Amhaz was one of their operatives.
Ali Hamie, Lebanon’s minister of public works and transport, told local media that Amhaz was allegedly just a captain of civilian ships and a student at a civilian naval institute.
Along with the operation to capture Amhaz, the Shayetet 13 was also deployed in southern Lebanon to carry out a raid on an underground Hezbollah compound filled with weapons.
Together with other units of the IDF, the naval commandos killed several Hezbollah operatives hiding in the tunnel, where the troops discovered rocket launchers likely used to fire at northern Israel.
Along with the launchers, the soldiers found a plethora of assault rifles, explosive devices, anti-tank missiles, surface-to-air missiles, mortars and other military equipment, the IDF said.
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Ali Soleiman al-Assi, a Syrian citizen who worked as an IRGC Iranian terror network operative, was similarly captured in Syria some time ago but just announced in the last few days.
In this case, it sure does.
God damnit can’t people get their sentence structure right? They captured him on land and took him away in a speedboat which was probably one of those inflatable navy seal boats. They are generally not called speedboats which are recreational boats for racing or pulling water skiers. So we have to deal with lying journalists who are also illiterate.
Not only that, but “they carted him off.”
Wouldn’t you need a wheeled cart to “cart him off”? It’s difficult to cart a person off in a boat.
A warning not a time to feel lucky.
The Shayatet 13 did an Oceans 13 Israeli style!
They should have took him silently and bombed his home into ashes. Gave themselves more time to recover usable intelligence.
As chicken $#it as most terrorist leaders are Amhoz was most likely squealing like a pig stuck under a gate before the boat got going.
My guess is that Amhoz was bound, gagged, carried in a large sack with handles, and probably sedated. IDF commandos at war leave little to chance.
Maybe they have something like our MarkVs
“Sweet dreams are made of these...who am I to disagree?”
Amhaz will awaken to a nightmare. IDF interrogators are the best in the world and will almost certainly get Amhaz talking. That is why he was taken alive instead of being turned into charred meat paste by the well-aimed ordinance of the Israeli Air Force.
A Zodiac.
I suspect you are 100% correct.
So true.
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