The state-run National News Agency reported that the raided the area in search for wanted suspects.
Future television reported that a unit comprised of ISF members and the Intelligence Bureau came under fire while carrying out a raid in Sidon to apprehend suspects affiliated in the Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
Resistance Brigades.
Media reports had said that Hizbullah decided to dissolve its affiliated Resistance Brigades to lift the cover off any member that breaches security.
Salafist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir
...Leb Salafist holy man with the usual grouch against Shiites. Currently on the run, he seems intent on reigniting the Leb civil war...
accused in June 2013 Hizbullah of using several apartments in Abra in Sidon to stockpile weapons and house fighters.
Al-Asir supporters clashed several times with the members of the Hizbullah's Resistance Brigades in Abra.
The Salafist holy man, a 45-year-old holy man who supports the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels fighting to topple Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
, is no where to be found after his supporters clashed in June with the army.
Officials in Sidon have been demanding Hizbullah, after al-Asir's battle with the army, to withdraw its resistance brigades members from the city.