|
Trending Topics
|
Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/12/18/how-idf-abducted-hezbollah-naval-captain-imad-amhaz/
How Israel Thwarted Hizbullah's Plan to Create a "Terror Ship"
(Israel Hayom) Itay Ilnai - On Nov. 2, 2024, Israeli Navy commandos silently raided the Lebanese coastal town of Batroun, 87 miles from the Israeli border, and removed Imad Amhaz while he slept in his bed without firing a single shot. Amhaz, 39, a Shiite, joined Hizbullah in 2004. In 2007, he completed a several-month military course in Iran. Israeli intelligence noted that Amhaz was meeting with senior Hizbullah officials including Ali Abed al-Hassan Nour al-Din, who is married to the daughter of Fuad Shukr, Hizbullah's chief of staff until his assassination in July 2024. Amhaz was chosen to be the captain of Hizbullah's "Secret Naval File." The project was directed personally by Hassan Nasrallah and Fuad Shukr. The goal was to create a Hizbullah "terror ship" - a large civilian merchant vessel that could roam the seas without suspicion, enter civilian ports, and carry out attacks that would change the balance of terror against Israel and its allies. "Think about September 11 - you take a civilian platform and use it to carry out a strategic terror act. This was the goal," said Rear Adm. A., Head of Naval Intelligence. One can only imagine the kind of attacks the Hizbullah leadership planned to carry out using the terror ship: the hijacking of a passenger ship, an attack on the Karish gas field, a raid by dozens of armed operatives on Israel's Haifa or Ashdod ports.