IDF: Hezbollah operative nabbed last year was key to group’s ‘secret maritime file’ |
The Israel Defense Forces on Friday revealed new information on a raid carried out by naval commandos last year, during which a “significant” Hezbollah operative was nabbed.
On November 1, 2024, members of the Israeli Navy’s elite Shayetet 13 unit arrived from the sea and raided a chalet on the coast of Batroun, south of Tripoli — some 140 kilometers (87 miles) north of Israel’s maritime border with Lebanon.
The commandos captured Imad Amhaz, whom the military said on Friday was “one of the most significant figures in Hezbollah’s secret maritime file and a member of the coast-to-sea missile unit (7900).”
In an unusual move, the IDF published footage of his interrogation.
As part of his role in the coast-to-sea missile unit, Amhaz “received military training in Iran and Lebanon and gained extensive maritime expertise and experience for the purpose of carrying out maritime terror attacks,” the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, Col. Avichay Adraee, said on X.
Adraee said that Amhaz had trained at a civilian Lebanese maritime institute, “which........