Beirut halts a facility close to Hezbollah on charges of "collaboration"

Lebanese authorities arrested a person close to Hezbollah on charges of “collaboration” with Israel and supplying it with information that led to the assassination of Hezbollah leaders, a senior judicial source told AFP on Tuesday.

The source, who followed the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity, said that a “high-level agent for Israel” had been detained in Beirut. He was involved in providing the Israeli side with accurate information that resulted in the assassination of Hezbollah officials, including four top-tier security commanders.

He explained that the detainee was “very close to Hezbollah leaders” and possessed extensive information due to his close relationship with them.

According to the source, the arrest took place last week at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport, as the detainee was preparing to travel to Iraq. He was handed over to the military court to begin his trial.

The detainee, originally from southern Lebanon and married to an Iraqi woman, traveled between Lebanon and Iraq. From there, he would fly to Turkey “to meet officers and operatives linked to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, providing them with information about targets for which he had gathered data in Beirut, before they were later struck,” the same source added.