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Conflict Incident Report

Meat illegaly brought to Lebanon from Syria

Date of incident: 
December 18, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
ISF Intelligence Branch
Lebanese Civilians

The ISF announced Sunday that it had stopped a pickup truck with meat brought illegally into Lebanon from Syria. On Dec. 18, in the Minyeh-Dinnieh town of Beddawi, a unit from the ISF’s Information Branch seized about three tons of meat. It also arrested the truck’s driver Lebanese national Aa.S., born in 1999, as well as T.Aa., born in 1998.

Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Secondary Category: 
Illicit Trade/Trafficking/Smuggling
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.