Beirut, March 29: A Lebanese citizen was arrested on suspicion of collaborating with Israel, the Internal Security Forces Directorate General said in a statement Monday.
The detainee, identified as H.B., was arrested on March 21 in the southern city of Tyre by the ISF Information Branch, said the statement.
The ISF said H.B. confessed to collaborating with Israel between 2006 and early 2011. During that period, the detainee had provided Israel with general information on the situation in Lebanon, including the relations of different Lebanese sects with Hezbollah and how these sects understood the concept of resistance, said the statement.
The detainee had also sent Israeli authorities a comprehensive study which included information about Tyre’s various sects and the relations between residents of the southern city and Hezbollah.
Also, the statement said that H.B. had provided Israeli intelligence services with the coordinates of “dozens of locations” in Tyre and nearby Abbasieh, including offices for Hezbollah MPs and social and religious associations of the party.
In addition, he provided a massive survey of all warehouses and hangars in the area and provided detailed information about resistance cadres, the locations and movements of Hezbollah members and its military supplies in the district of Tyre and its environ.
Israeli authorities managed to provide the detainee with two USBs in the southern region of Namirieh along with $2,000. The two devices, which the ISF confiscated, contained video footage of Tyre and the surrounding areas, according to the statement. The accused spy had used Google Earth to locate targets for the Israeli authorities, it added.
Last year, Lebanon saw a nationwide crackdown on Lebanese nationals suspected of collaborating with Israel. More than 150 individuals, many of whom were army officers, were rounded up during the campaign.
——–Agencies