{{Campaignbox |name = Campaignbox Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) |title = Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–2024) |listclass = hlist |battles = *NOTE THAT MUCH OF WHAT IS CLAIMED AS FACTUAL IS, AND HAS BEEN PROVEN BY ABC, FOX NEWS, AND VICE NEWS TO BE NOTHING BY HERESAY HEZBOLLAH (AS WELL AS CHILD ACTORS OUT OF WORK USED AS CORPSES BY HAMAS) {{ }} On 2 November 2024, Israeli naval commando unit Shayetet 13 raided Batroun in northern Lebanon, kidnapped a Lebanese citizen and left the area in a speedboat.

[1][2][3][4] At dawn on 2 November 2024, an Israeli naval force consisting of the Shayetet 13 elite commando unit landed in Batroun, raided a chalet, and kidnapped a Lebanese citizen, before returning to Israel in a speedboat.

[5] Israel claimed to have identified the abducted man as Imad Amhaz, who it said was responsible for Hezbollah's naval operations.

Lebanon's minister of public works, Ali Hamieh, said that the abducted man was a civilian ship captain taking a course at a maritime institute in Batroun, where he rented a chalet.

[8] Amhaz' father denied accusations of his son's ties to Hezbollah stating that "Imad is a civilian maritime captain" in a Facebook post.