Shebaa Police Station 'Encircled' by 'Members of Resistance Brigades'
Members of the Hizbullah-linked Resistance Brigades on Saturday “encricled” the police station in the southern border town of Shebaa in protest at the arrest of two residents, media reports said.
“Members of political parties and others belonging to the Resistance Brigades have encircled the Shebaa police station in protest at the interrogation of Mustafa and Thaer Ghayyad,” MTV reported.
LBCI television said the two men were detained for “assaulting a member of the Internal Security Forces.”
Meanwhile, Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5) said the duo had “attacked security personnel” as al-Jadeed TV said they assaulted “an ISF Intelligence Bureau agent.”
The decision to create the Resistance Brigades was taken in 1997 by Hizbullah's leadership. The group comprised Lebanese young men who wanted to fight the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon without having to officially join Hizbullah.
However, the Brigades were not dissolved after the Israeli army withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000 and they reportedly took part in the fighting against Islamist cleric Ahmed al-Asir's group in the Sidon suburb of Abra in 2013.
Y.R.
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