Israeli Spy Device Found in South, 12 Suspected Terrorists Arrested in Tripoli
An Israeli spy device was discovered Wednesday in the outskirts of the southern town of Bani Hayyan in the Marjeyoun district, media reports said.
Hizbullah's al-Manar television said the device was found in the town's al-Arid area.
It said it consisted of “a camera fixed inside an artificial rock and wired to a number of batteries.”
Later in the day, state-run National News Agency said the device was found during excavation works, adding that it was dismantled by the army after a security cordon was imposed in the area.
NNA noted that the site had been an Israeli military post prior to Israel's withdrawal in the year 2000.
Several similar devices were discovered in the South in recent years, some of them booby-trapped.
In September 2014, Hizbullah military expert Hussein Haidar was killed as an Israeli drone remotely detonated a spy device he was dismantling in the southern coastal town of Adloun.
Meanwhile, the army command said in a communique that a military unit arrested in the Bab al-Ramel area of the northern city of Tripoli on Wednesday night 12 Lebanese on suspicion of belonging to terrorist groups.
The suspects were referred to the appropriate authorities for further questioning.
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