Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces [ISF] foiled plans by a terrorist network to carry out three suicide attacks in the country, Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi told a news conference on Wednesday.

Mawlawi said the network was affiliated with ISIL and that the plans for attacks, near the capital Beirut, involved gunfire and fire from rocket-propelled grenades in addition to suicide vests.

“Three separate targets were to be hit at the same time in an operation that would have claimed numerous lives,” the minister said.

Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said the instructions for the bomb plot came from an ISIL operative based in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh.

According to Al-Manar sources, the ISF recruited one of its members as a data agent within the terrorist group. The sources noted that the ISF agent contacted with the head of the ISIL terrorist cell in Ain al-Hilweh and gained his trust.

One week ago, an ISF patrol arrested two of the group members with their explosives aimed to target three mosques in Beirut’s Dahiyeh.

Source: National News Agency (translated and edited by Al-Manar English Website)