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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests 3 armed robbery suspects

Date of incident: 
November 15, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Palestinian Civilians/Refugees
Syrian Civilians/Refugees

The Internal Security Forces arrested three people Thursday for breaking into and stealing from shops in Zahle and other neighboring areas, an ISF statement said Sunday.

The suspects were identified as Palestinian national A.H., born in 1994, Palestinian national Kh.H., born in 1990, and Syrian national A.Z., born in 1996.

The statement said that at the time of their arrest in the Bekaa town of Barr Elias, the ISF found a knife that the accused had used in their robberies, as well as some hashish

Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.