Army Thwarts Attempts to Smuggle Weapons out of Ain el-Hilweh
The army intelligence arrested on Tuesday two people and seized weapons and ammunition from vehicles near the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, the National News Agency reported.
NNA said a pickup loaded with ammunition was seized at the camp’s entrance near the southern city of Sidon while the occupants of a Mercedes carrying a DShK Soviet-era machinegun were arrested as they were going out of the shantytown.
NNA said the army seized the DShK machinegun and arrested two men identified with their initials as M.M.A. and A.Z.
The two suspects were taken to a military base for questioning, the agency added.
The seizure came in light of the army intelligence’s arrest of an extremist network that was allegedly planning to carry out attacks on the military school in al-Fayyadiyeh and an army base in Hamat.
The ringleader has been identified as Abu Mohammed Toufiq Taha, the head of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades at Ein el-Hilweh, who is on the run.
It was not clear if the two arrests are linked.
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