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Report: Lebanese army arrests members of Hamas in Lebanon
Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent
Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of an UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, September 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
The Saudi Al-Hadath channel reports that the Lebanese army arrested Hamas operatives in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon — Ain al-Hilweh and Nahr al-Bared — and that a senior Hamas official requested a meeting with the head of Lebanese army intelligence.
The report has not been officially confirmed by the Lebanese army.
The reason for the arrest is unclear. However, earlier, Jordan’s King Abdullah II spoke with the Lebanese President Joseph Aoun regarding the exposure of a terror cell that had manufactured rockets in Jordan and was allegedly linked to Hamas.
Jordan stated yesterday that the members of the cell who were arrested had trained in Jordan.
