Daily Star - Military prosecutor seeks death penalty for Israel spies

A Lebanese military prosecutor said on Tuesday that he has demanded that two brothers charged with spying for Israel be condemned to death if convicted.
Rashid Muzhir told AFP he has called for the "harshest punishment" for Yusef and Ali Jarrah, who have been charged with several counts of spying for Israel and of forgery. Spying for Israel is punishable by death in Lebanon, which remains technically in a state of war with the Jewish state. The prosecution alleges that the brothers were recruited by Israel's Mossad spy agency in the early 1980s and gathered information on Hizbullah, Lebanese army positions and Palestinian groups in the country. Muzhir did not say when they would face trial. The Jarrah brothers, who are from the eastern Bekaa region, were detained last year by Hizbullah, which fought a devastating 34-day war with Israel in Lebanon in 2006. Last month, the army also detained a man from the southern town of Nabatiyeh on suspicion that he spied for Israel. He has not yet been charged.