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<h1 class="gmail-">Dozens arrested in Lebanon on suspicion of
collaborating with Israel</h1>
<p class="gmail-">Most of the arrests happened following the
one-sided ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel</p>
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<p><span style="background-color:transparent">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">According
to the same source, those arrested are accused of
supplying Israel with information on Hezbollah\u2019s
movements and infrastructure, enabling direct
strikes on the resistance group\u2019s senior commanders
and weapons sites. </span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">The court
found them guilty of \u201cproviding the enemy with
coordinates, addresses, and names of Hezbollah
officials, knowing that the enemy would use this
information to bomb locations where the group\u2019s
officials and leaders were located.\u201d</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">Despite
the truce signed in November, Israeli attacks have
continued unabated, with thousands of strikes and
hundreds of Lebanese civilians killed.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">In
September last year, thousands of Hezbollah pagers
and walkie-talkies exploded in a coordinated Israeli
operation that crippled the group\u2019s communications
network. Lebanon reported 39 people killed, and
thousands were wounded.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">A week
later, Israel carried out a massive airstrike on
Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs that killed Hezbollah
Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, marking one of
the most significant escalations in the
confrontation between the two sides.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">The
arrests come as part of broader regional
intelligence tensions, following the </span><a
href="https://thecradle.co/articles/alleged-mossad-spy-freed-in-baghdad-without-prisoner-exchange-sources-say"
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style="background-color:transparent">release</span></a><span
style="background-color:transparent"> of
Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov in
Baghdad in September.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">Sources
close to the Iraqi government told AFP that Tsurkov,
a former Israeli military intelligence officer, was
freed under \u201cpressure\u201d on her captors rather than
through a prisoner exchange. </span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">Earlier
reports claiming Israel had released Iraqi, Iranian,
and Lebanese detainees, including </span><span
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(25,25,25)">maritime
captain </span><a
href="https://thecradle.co/articles/israels-weird-abduction-of-a-lebanese-sea-captain"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="background-color:transparent">Imad Amhaz</span></a><span
style="background-color:transparent">,</span><span
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(25,25,25)"> who was
abducted from the coastal city of Batroun in Lebanon
\u2013 </span><span style="background-color:transparent">were
denied by officials in both Beirut and Baghdad.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">While in
captivity, Tsurkov, who entered Iraq illegally using
a Russian passport, appeared in a video
acknowledging links to Israel\u2019s intelligence agency,
Mossad.</span></p>
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