Hezbollah prevented Lebanese authorities in Beirut from inspecting two suspicious vehicles allegedly carrying weapons until after the group diverted and emptied their contents, according to several Lebanese media reports. The patrol, having obtained authorization from Lebanese authorities, approached the two vehicles, intending to detain and inspect them. Quoting unnamed “security officials,” Al Jadeed, a TV station sometimes sympathetic to Hezbollah, claimed the vehicles were two Toyota sedans, not trucks. At that point, Lebanese security forces called for military reinforcements. This development, the reports claim, led Ali Ayyoub, a Hezbollah Security Committee member in Dahiyeh, to head to the Tayyouneh Police station and negotiate with Lebanese authorities.