Lebanon arrests '2 Russians' who tried to spy on Hezbollah for Israel
General Security acting Director-General Maj. Gen. Elias Bayssari has announced the arrest of two individuals at Beirut’s airport who are suspected of having ties to Israel.
Bayssari added that the two men had been tasked with carrying out security operations in Lebanon and that they have since been referred to the military judiciary.
Security sources meanwhile told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that the two suspects are “non-Jew Russians.”
“Their mission was to monitor and try to infiltrate sensitive Hezbollah sites,” the sources said.
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26 August 2023, 14:14
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They cannot definitively ascertain their non-Jewish status as the religious affiliation is transmitted matrilineally…relying on a family name to determine someone's religion is rather inadequate in this case.
