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L'Orient-Le Jour
2 days ago
- Politics
- L'Orient-Le Jour
Jamaa Islamiya denies reports about training camp in Aley
BEIRUT — Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, a Lebanese Sunni party affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, denied on Saturday reports by some media outlets about a training camp in Aley. Citing a judicial source, newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported Saturday that a training camp belonging to Hamas and Jamaa Islamiya was dismantled in the Aley region of Mount Lebanon. Meanwhile, the Saudi outlet television channel reported Saturday, citing Lebanese military sources, that a cell that was arrested three weeks ago in Aytat (Aley district) by the Lebanese Army includes 10 members of Hamas and Jamaa Islamiya's military wing. "We would like to clarify to the Lebanese public that the group does not have any armed training camps anywhere in Lebanon, nor does it seek to establish any. It is committed to civil peace and stability and has affirmed its cooperation and coordination with the relevant authorities in Lebanon to consolidate this", the Jamaa Islamiya statement reads. The group added that it refuses to "provide any pretext for the Israeli enemy to continue its aggression against Lebanon, and has repeatedly affirmed its call for the adoption of a defense strategy in line with the speech of His Excellency the President of the Republic regarding national security and its requirements." Members of the Jamaa Islamiya's al-Fajr Brigades had claimed several military operations in southern Lebanon during the war between Israel and Hezbollah, who opened fire on Oct. 8, 2023, in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas in the wake of Israel's war on Gaza. Several of the group's fighters have also been killed during the war and after the cease-fire.
Al Jazeera
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
LIVE: Israel attacks children's hospital in Gaza; polio campaign at a halt
We've been reporting on an Israeli attack on a car near the town of Baaouerta in the Chouf district of Mount Lebanon that killed a key commander of Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya. The Lebanese armed group earlier identified the fighter as Hussein Atawi. Israel has now claimed responsibility for the assassination. In a statement, the Israeli military said Atawi was a 'key figure in the Al-Jama'a al-Islamiya with ties to Hamas' and said he was involved in planning attacks from Lebanon against Israel. Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya said Atawi was a leading commander in the armed branch of the group, known as the Fajr Forces, and was killed as he was driving from his home to his office in Beirut. The Fajr Forces were part of the Hezbollah-led contingent that fired rockets across Lebanon's southern border at Israel throughout the war, which ended last year in a ceasefire deal.
Al Jazeera
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Israeli attack kills al-Jamaa al-Islamiya leader in Lebanon
A top commander of the armed wing of the Lebanese party al-Jamaa al-Islamiya has been killed in an Israeli drone attack in Lebanon. The attack on Hussein Atoui's car south of Beirut was one of two deadly strikes launched by Israel on Tuesday. The strikes were part of a wave of ongoing violations from both sides of the border of the ceasefire agreement struck last November between Israel and Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah, risking a flare-up of hostilities. Lebanon's Civil Defence confirmed that 'an Israeli drone targeted a car' near the coastal town of Damour, about 20km (12.5 miles) south of Beirut, and rescuers recovered a man's body from the vehicle. Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, which is allied with Iran-linked groups Hezbollah and Hamas in Palestine, confirmed the death of Atoui, calling him an 'academic leader and university professor' who had been 'targeted' in his car as he travelled to work, in a statement. The AFP news agency, quoting an unnamed security official, said Atoui was a leader of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya's armed wing, al-Fajr Forces. Separately, Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health said another Israeli attack on the southern Tyre district also killed one person. Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya claimed responsibility for multiple attacks against Israel during more than a year of cross-border hostilities, including two months of all-out war that saw thousands killed in Lebanon in Israeli air raids before the November ceasefire deal was struck. Under the truce, Hezbollah, a powerful political and military force in Lebanon, was to withdraw fighters from south of the Litani River, about 27km (17 miles) north of the border with Israel, and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure there. Israel was to withdraw all its forces from south Lebanon. However, it has maintained troops in five positions it deems 'strategic'. It has pointed to continued sporadic rocket fire from across the border to justify its continued attacks. On Sunday, it said it killed two senior Hezbollah members in strikes. The United Nations said last week that Israeli forces have killed at least 71 civilians in Lebanon since the ceasefire. Lebanon, meanwhile, says it is trying to meet its obligations to disarm Hezbollah and other groups and have its military take control of southern regions. After unclaimed rocket fire against Israel in late March, the Lebanese army said last week it had arrested several Lebanese and Palestinian suspects, while a security official said they included three Hamas members. However, the United States has been applying sustained pressure on Beirut to accelerate the process of disarming Hezbollah. That has seen Lebanese President Joseph Aoun announce that he hopes to complete the process by the end of 2025, although he insisted on Sunday that he would not be rushed and warned that dismantling the group is a 'sensitive, delicate issue'.
