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The sideline who stopped the Lebanese infiltrator: "He shouted at me 'I am a Jew'" | Israel Today

2021-09-19T06:59:04.622Z


Major Elias Saman, now a detective at the Rosh Pina station, talks about the moments of the arrest: "I did not know if it was a terrorist or not" • Recently, the phenomenon of crossing the border is increasing • Security source:


Metula has become one of the most sensitive spots by being a kiss to the villages of southern Lebanon.

At the beginning of last week, forces were called in due to approaching the fence.

The suspect, who was later arrested by Lebanese army forces and reported to be Syrian, approached and walked away without a problem.

On Yom Kippur, it was a former SLA member, Major Elias Saman, a resident of Metula and a detective at the Rosh Pina police station, who noticed a man approaching the border fence in a suspicious manner.

"I was preparing for the shift and I recognized him on the Lebanese side," Saman told Israel Today. "He approached, walked away, checked, touched the fence. I suspected."

Saman took his personal pistol, called the security coordinator in Metula, and together, when he called the suspect in Arabic, they carried out a suspect arrest procedure.

"I did not know if it was a terrorist, what he had in the bag and if he was alone at all. I shouted at him to undress, throw the bag and throw up his hands. He shouted back at me: 'I am a Jew - do not shoot me.'"

IDF forces who arrived at the scene arrested the suspect.

Sergeant Elias Semen,

The Lebanese infiltrator who crossed the border on Yom Kippur was returned to Lebanon.

Like the other infiltrators before him, this time too the security forces estimated that he did not intend to carry out an attack.

In the past year, there have been an increase in cases in which civilians approach the border fence easily, and even cross it.

In the past year, these have been job seekers from Sudan who were caught only after a few hours in Israeli territory, the last of which occurred last July.

At the place where the infiltrator crossed the Yom Kippur, dozens of Lebanese crossed the border fence unhindered during Shavuot - during Operation The Wall Guard.

The Metula standby was detonated, but the IDF did not allow air strikes. The Lebanese crossed the fence unhindered, causing damage and setting fire that caused a fire in the Nahal Eyun Reserve. In response, the IDF fired tank shells and fired small arms.

An ongoing problem

"The IDF will have to prepare for the changing reality on the Lebanese border," says a security source. But everything on the border was done under the watchful eye of Hezbollah. They are following what is happening. "

Source: israelhayom

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