Control operations and security monitoring enabled a unit of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), supported by a patrol from the Intelligence Directorate, to arrest “eight citizens” in the locality of Kfarzabad, in the Bekaa Valley, on Friday evening, accused of smuggling weapons from Syria.
They are accused of having “formed a gang to smuggle and sell weapons and munitions of war from Syrian territories to Lebanese territories”, according to an LAF press release published on X.
بعد عمليات الرصد والمتابعة الأمنية، ضبطت وحدة من الجيش تؤازرها دورية من مديرية المخابرات في خراج بلدة عيحا مرج التوت – راشيا كمية من الصواريخ والأسلحة والذخائر الحربية وأجهزة التفجير.
— الجيش اللبناني (@LebarmyOfficial) April 18, 2025
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At the time of their arrest, they had in their possession “weapons, munitions of war, and several vehicles used in their operations.”
The objects seized “have been handed over” and an investigation into the persons arrested has been opened “under the supervision of the competent judicial authorities,” the Lebanese army press release also states.
In addition, these security rounds enabled the troops to seize “a quantity of rockets, weapons, munitions of war and explosive devices” on the outskirts of the localities of Ayha Marj al-Tout and Rachaya, in the Bekaa governorate.
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