Lebanese Authorities Arrest Alleged Mossad Agent Whose Intelligence Helped Assassinate Four Senior Hezbollah Security Commanders

Lebanese authorities arrested a man closely tied to Hezbollah last week at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport as he prepared to board a flight to Iraq, a judicial official told AFP, alleging he had spied for Israel 12. The official said the detainee, a southern Lebanon resident married to an Iraqi woman, used the trips as cover to meet Mossad-linked officers in Turkey and pass them targeting data on Beirut 12. The intelligence contributed to strikes that killed four senior Hezbollah security officials, the official said, and JFeed reported that Asharq Al-Awsat identified the detainee as a member of the Khalifeh family and named the targets as including Fuad Shukr and Ibrahim Aqil in August and September 2024 1. The Lebanese military judiciary has since taken over the case from the Internal Security Forces' Information Branch, part of a broader crackdown that has netted more than 30 espionage suspects since the 2023-2024 war with Israel, with past convictions carrying sentences up to 25 years 12.