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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests suspects over shooting in Baabda

Date of incident: 
November 12, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians
Syrian Civilians/Refugees

The Internal Security Forces has arrested three suspects over a shooting that targeted a local humanitarian organization in Baabda.

The incident began when a man in a private vehicle engaged in a “traffic dispute” with a driver of an Islamic Health Committee ambulance in the Baabda area on Nov. 12, gunshots were fired from a car at the IHC’s building in Baabda’s Tahwitat al-Ghadir, and the car fled shortly thereafter. No one was hurt in the incident.

The ISF said it identified the perpetrators of the shooting and arrested them in the Beirut southern suburb of Hay al-Sellom. They were identified as Lebanese national H.H., born in 1984; Lebanese national Aa.Aa. born in 1992; and Syrian national H.J., born in 1998. A Kalashnikov assault rifle was seized during their arrest, as well as a quantity of cannabis

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.