{"id":69193,"date":"2026-01-29T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipping.einnews.com\/article\/887791022"},"modified":"2026-01-29T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:32:07","slug":"reports-hezbollah-detains-lebanese-security-personnel-seeking-to-inspect-suspicious-cargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/reports-hezbollah-detains-lebanese-security-personnel-seeking-to-inspect-suspicious-cargo\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Hezbollah detains Lebanese security personnel seeking to inspect suspicious cargo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hezbollah prevented Lebanese authorities in Beirut from inspecting two suspicious vehicles allegedly carrying weapons until after the group diverted and emptied their contents, according to several Lebanese media reports. The incident reportedly occurred on January 23 in the Tayouneh neighborhood, a major traffic junction straddling the political-sectarian fault line between the Lebanese capital\u2019s Hezbollah-dominated southern Shiite suburbs and its predominantly Christian neighborhoods. These reports undermine recent claims by the Lebanese government that Hezbollah\u2019s disarmament is well underway.<\/p>\n

According to MTV Lebanon<\/a> and Beirut Time<\/a><\/em>, two Lebanese media outlets with an anti-Hezbollah orientation, a patrol belonging to the Internal Security Forces (ISF) Judicial Police Unit\u2019s Office for Combating International Theft Crimes became suspicious after observing two unmarked Toyota freight trucks with tinted windows parked for some time opposite the Lebanese Armed Forces barracks at Tayouneh Junction. The patrol, having obtained authorization from Lebanese authorities, approached the two vehicles, intending to detain and inspect them. Quoting unnamed \u201csecurity officials,\u201d Al Jadeed, a TV station sometimes sympathetic to Hezbollah, claimed<\/a> the vehicles were two Toyota sedans, not trucks.<\/p>\n

At that point, several young men\u2014either Hezbollah operatives or, per Al Jadeed, the group\u2019s supporters \u201cfrom the neighborhood\u2019s residents\u201d\u2014converged upon the patrol and attempted to assault them. The young men threatened the Lebanese officers and prevented them from detaining the two vehicles.<\/p>\n

After that, Hezbollah operatives reportedly forcibly extracted the two vehicles and removed them toward Hezbollah\u2019s de facto security zone in Dahiyeh\u2019s Shiyyah neighborhood. The Hezbollah operatives also allegedly detained one of the patrol\u2019s members, identified by MTV Lebanon only by his initials \u201cZY,\u201d for 20 minutes. Subsequently, Hezbollah reportedly released the Lebanese officer from its custody.<\/p>\n

At that point, Lebanese security forces called for military reinforcements. This development, the reports claim, led Ali Ayyoub<\/a>, a Hezbollah Security Committee member in Dahiyeh, to head to the Tayyouneh Police station and negotiate with Lebanese authorities. Various reports have previously described<\/a> Ayyoub as an aide to Wafic Safa, the head of Hezbollah\u2019s Liaison and Coordination Unit.<\/p>\n

Ayyoub\u2019s negotiations reportedly concluded with a promise on behalf of Hezbollah to surrender the two trucks to the ISF. According to MTV Lebanon, the two trucks were handed over to Lebanese authorities \u201conly afterwards\u2014meaning, after they were changed, switched out, and emptied [of their cargo].\u201d Al Jadeed reports claim this handover occurred \u201calmost two hours later.\u201d Beirut Time<\/em> claims to have learned (without specifying from whom) that the two trucks were transporting weapons from Hezbollah\u2019s former arsenal in Syria and had recently entered Lebanon through one of the many unauthorized crossings on the Lebanon-Syria border.<\/p>\n

Relatedly, at 9:04 pm on January 21<\/a>, several Israeli airstrikes targeted positions on the Lebanon-Syria border opposite Hermel in northeast Lebanon. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) subsequently released a statement<\/a> claiming to have targeted four border crossings that Hezbollah used to smuggle weapons. Al Jadeed claims that after the two vehicles were detained by Lebanese authorities, they were transferred to the Ali Shahrour Lot in Ouzai.<\/p>\n

Unnamed \u201csources close to Hezbollah\u201d denied this version of events to Al Jadeed, alleging \u201cthat the reports are entirely disconnected from what actually occurred.\u201d These sources additionally denied that the two vehicles belonged to Hezbollah at all, claiming that the \u201ctwo illegal vehicles were parked near Tayyouneh Junction, and words were exchanged between the vehicles\u2019 owners and security forces after the latter tried to seize the vehicles\u2014an incident which concluded with their seizure.\u201d <\/p>\n

Hezbollah and Lebanese authorities, including the ISF, have yet to release any official statements on the incident, either confirming or denying its occurrence or details. MTV Lebanon, reporting on January 26, said that Lebanese authorities had not detained any of those involved in the event, and Lebanon\u2019s judicial system \u201chas neither questioned nor pursued any of the perpetrators.\u201d However, Al Jadeed\u2019s report, purporting to quote official Lebanese sources, claimed that \u201cthe incident was now in the hands of the relevant [Lebanese] security agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Daoud is Senior Fellow at at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies where he focuses on Israel, Hezbollah, and Lebanon affairs.<\/p>\n

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