The Israeli army revealed that the explosive device that exploded, last Monday, near the Megiddo junction in Marj Ibn Amer, between the cities of Umm al-Fahm and Nazareth, was carried out by a Lebanese youth from Hezbollah, who had succeeded in infiltrating into Israel.
The Israeli army spokesman said, after three days of secrecy, that the Lebanese youth entered through a hole he made in the electronic fence, and reached the Megiddo site, close to a prison housing between 800 and 900 Palestinian prisoners. He was helped to reach, a person, who is prohibited from publishing details of his identity, if he is an Arab citizen from Israel or from the West Bank, who was able to activate the qualitative explosive made in a highly professional manner “unprecedented on the Palestinian scene,” according to the military source who was speaking to the “channel.” 13 » The Israeli.
The source added, “The explosive device was at an advanced level than the usual ones, and we found it similar to the explosive devices that our army was exposed to during the years of occupation of southern Lebanon.”
It is noteworthy that the explosion occurred, on Monday, and hit an Arab vehicle driven by a young man from the neighboring town of Salem, Omar Sharaf Al-Din (21 years old), who was seriously injured.
On the same day, the police and security services declared a state of military emergency, and it became clear that the security forces chased a car that fled the scene and managed to stop it. The driver got out and turned himself in, while the Lebanese youth remained in the car, and they shot him, claiming that he was carrying other explosives.
A military source confirmed that Israel witnessed “recently several operations and attempts to carry out explosive operations; Among them was the planting of an explosive device on a bus in the (Beitar Illit) settlement near Bethlehem, and its perpetrator escaped, and it showed the high level of scientific and technological development of the perpetrators.
A Lebanese security source confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat that there is nothing unusual on the southern border, stressing that the region is witnessing complete calm, and that the Lebanese army monitors the entire border.
Israel is talking about the infiltration of an activist from “Hezbollah” and the planting of an explosive device
