Army Raids Dahieh Neighborhoods in Search of Rocket Attack Suspects

The army on Saturday raided neighborhoods in the southern suburb of Beirut in search of suspects accused of firing rockets towards Dahieh in May.

"Military forces raided locations in the Dahieh to arrest Palestinian national Ahmed Taha and other suspects accused of May's rocket attack,” LBCI television reported.

The same source detailed: “The army forcefully entered a shop owned by Taha at the entrance of (the Dahieh neighborhood of) Burj al-Barajneh and confiscated folders and papers.”

"The troops also confiscated CDs and a digital camera that could be used in the investigation.”

On May 26, four people were wounded in a rocket attack on Beirut's southern suburbs.

The Lebanese army said in a statement that a rocket was fired at a car dealership near the Mar Mikhael church and another landed in the Maroun Misk neighborhood.

LBCI had reported then that the wounded are Syrian laborers who have all been transferred to hospital to treat their light injuries.

OTV and LBCI later said that a rocket launcher was discovered in a forestland located between Bsaba and Aitat in Mount Lebanon from where the shells were likely fired at Shiyyah.

Beirut's southern suburb has been a scene of several violent attacks lately.

In July, a booby-trapped car exploded at a parking lot in Bir al-Abed, leaving 53 people wounded and causing extensive material damage.

And on Thursday, 24 people were killed and more than 325 others wounded in a powerful car bombing that went off between the suburbs of Bir al-Abed and Ruwais.