Two Jerusalem residents were picked up by Israeli agencies on the suspicion of spying for the Iran-backed Hezbollah group amidst the war in Lebanon. According to Jewish media reports, the State Attorney filed an indictment against the two men but only after one of them shared images of the Israeli Prime Minister's house with the enemy.
The detention of the two suspected Hezbollah informants in Jerusalem comes a week after a 19-year-old was arrested from Nazareth for helping the militia group. The Israel Police and Shin Bet picked up Mohammad Saadi after they learnt that the teenager had voluntarily passed on videos and photos to the Al-Manar group, a subsidiary of Hezbollah.
The investigators learnt that Mohammad Saadi wished to join Hezbollah and readily accepted when Al-Manar asked to spy on Israel. He managed to pass on photos and videos of Israeli military positions, aircraft movement and projectile crash sites before being caught, The Jerusalem Post said in a report.
Hezbollah infiltrating Jerusalem?
Meanwhile, the two men caught from Jerusalem for espionage managed to pass on information to a female Hezbollah operative, who is believed to be their handler. Abd Al-Islam and Ta'aar Ali, both in their thirties, continued passing information to the woman identified as Dania despite being aware of her links to Hezbollah, Israeli agencies found out.
Dania got in touch with the two over a WhatsApp group, The Jerusalem Post said. While Ta'aar Ali was accused of passing media reports on Israel's security systems from Jerusalem to the Hezbollah operative, Abd Al-Islam managed to take photos of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in Caesarea and send it, the report added. Located in Israel's Mediterranean coast, Caesarea is about 120 kilometres from Jerusalem.
They were scheduled to get in touch with a higher-ranking Hezbollah intelligence officer but were nabbed before it could happen, the report said.