Free Republic

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,...

Lebanese reports on Saturday said that an Israeli military force raided an area near the coastal city of Batroun, and took a senior Hezbollah official captive. An Israeli security source confirmed to Sky News Arabic that "a special operation was carried out, in which a person was taken captive in northern Lebanon." Arab news outlets reported that a large naval force, suspected to be Israeli, arrived at the Batroun coast in northern Lebanon and captured a Hezbollah operative staying in a hut in the area, around 140 kilometers from the Israeli border. According to the reports, the operation included over...