✸Israeli naval raid at Batroun abducts Imad Amhaz

On the night of 1 November 2024 some 25 members of the Israeli naval commando unit "Shayetet 13" landed by speedboat on the beach at Batroun in the North, far from the southern front, and took Imad Amhaz from a chalet near the maritime sciences institute. Israel said he was a naval official in Hezbollah, and the transport minister said he was a civilian ship's captain taking courses at the institute; Lebanon filed an urgent complaint with the Security Council.