[News] Dozens arrested in Lebanon on suspicion of collaborating with Israel

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  Dozens arrested in Lebanon on suspicion of collaborating with Israel

Most of the arrests happened following the one-sided ceasefire between 
Hezbollah and Israel

News Desk <https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9>

OCT 9, 2025 - 
https://thecradle.co/articles/dozens-arrested-in-lebanon-on-suspicion-of-collaborating-with-israel

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Lebanese authorities in the past months have detained 32 people accused 
of collaborating with Israel and providing intelligence used in strikes 
against Hezbollah, a judicial official told AFP on 9 October.

The official, speaking anonymously, said six arrests were made before 
the November ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, while nine of the 
accused have already faced trial in the military court, and the 
remaining 23 suspects are still under investigation.

According to the same source, those arrested are accused of supplying 
Israel with information on Hezbollah’s movements and infrastructure, 
enabling direct strikes on the resistance group’s senior commanders and 
weapons sites.

Lebanon remains technically at war with Israel despite the nominal 
ceasefire agreement back in November 2024, and any contact with the 
enemy is punishable by imprisonment.

A second judicial official familiar with the investigation confirmed 
that two of the convicted individuals were sentenced to eight and seven 
years of hard labor.

The court found them guilty of “providing the enemy with coordinates, 
addresses, and names of Hezbollah officials, knowing that the enemy 
would use this information to bomb locations where the group’s officials 
and leaders were located.”

The arrests come after more than a year of Israeli ceasefire violations 
and hostilities, including two months of open war, during which Israel 
launched extensive strikes targeting the Lebanese resistance.

Despite the truce signed in November, Israeli attacks have continued 
unabated, with thousands of strikes and hundreds of Lebanese civilians 
killed.

In September last year, thousands of Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies 
exploded in a coordinated Israeli operation that crippled the group’s 
communications network. Lebanon reported 39 people killed, and thousands 
were wounded.

A week later, Israel carried out a massive airstrike on Beirut’s 
southern suburbs that killed Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan 
Nasrallah, marking one of the most significant escalations in the 
confrontation between the two sides.

The arrests come as part of broader regional intelligence tensions, 
following the release 
<https://thecradle.co/articles/alleged-mossad-spy-freed-in-baghdad-without-prisoner-exchange-sources-say>of 
Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov in Baghdad in September.

Sources close to the Iraqi government told AFP that Tsurkov, a former 
Israeli military intelligence officer, was freed under “pressure” on her 
captors rather than through a prisoner exchange.

Earlier reports claiming Israel had released Iraqi, Iranian, and 
Lebanese detainees, including maritime captain Imad Amhaz 
<https://thecradle.co/articles/israels-weird-abduction-of-a-lebanese-sea-captain>,who 
was abducted from the coastal city of Batroun in Lebanon – were denied 
by officials in both Beirut and Baghdad.

Although some outlets reported that Amhaz was freed as part of a deal, 
neither Hezbollah nor his family has confirmed his release, and his fate 
remains uncertain.

While in captivity, Tsurkov, who entered Iraq illegally using a Russian 
passport, appeared in a video acknowledging links to Israel’s 
intelligence agency, Mossad.

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