The Lebanese army said on Saturday that it had arrested a key suspect involved in a car bombing that killed a senior official of a Palestinian militant group and who has links with Israeli intelligence.

"Military intelligence was able to arrest one of the key people involved in the bombing that led to the martyrdom of the Mjzoub brothers," the army said in a statement.

"Documents and equipment linked with the crime were seized with him, and he has links to the intelligence of the Israeli enemy," the statement said.

On May 26, a powerful car explosion in the coastal city of Sidon, 40 km south of Beirut, killed Mahmoud Mjzoub, leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Holy War) in Sidon, and his brother Nidal.

The Lebanese government and the Islamic Jihad accused Israel of being behind the attack, while the Jewish state dismissed the charge.

Two days after the explosion, rockets fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel wounded an Israeli soldier, prompting Israel to launch air raids against two bases of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), leaving one militant dead and five injured.

The air strikes sparked cross-border clashes between militants in Lebanon and Israeli troops, which left two militants dead and two Israeli soldiers injured.

Source: Xinhua