BEIRUT: The Military Tribunal sentenced a man to 20 years in jail with hard labor Wednesday for collaborating with Israel.
Brig. Gen. Nizar Khalil, who chaired the court, issued the verdict against Marwan Kamel Faqih, a car dealer who was charged with fitting tracking devices to vehicles belonging to Hezbollah members on behalf of the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. Faqih was arrested in February 2009.
According to the verdict, Faqih began collaborating with Israel in 2005 after he met with Mossad members in France. He then visited Israel where he was asked to provide information on Hezbollah officials, including the addresses of his father’s brothers, Ahmad and Kamal Faqih, who are both party figures, as well as information on Amal officials.
The verdict said that Mossad trained Faqih on how to read maps and locate targets such as bridges and roads. He was also instructed on how to provide detailed descriptions of buildings where Hezbollah officials lived, in addition to coordinates of schools, gas stations, Internet cafes, mosques, the Internal Security Forces center in Nabatieh and the Justice Palace.
According to the verdict, Faqih “received during the July 2006 war a phone call from the Mossad ordering him to leave his home in Nabatieh as Israeli planes were going to bomb a home adjacent to his.”
During the period between 2007 and 2009, Faqih traveled again to Israel and met with two officers who asked him to provide information on the residence of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and the building where Israeli prisoners were being detained, the verdict added.
Brig. Gen. Nizar Khalil, who chaired the court, issued the verdict against Marwan Kamel Faqih, a car dealer who was charged with fitting tracking devices to vehicles belonging to Hezbollah members on behalf of the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. Faqih was arrested in February 2009.
According to the verdict, Faqih began collaborating with Israel in 2005 after he met with Mossad members in France. He then visited Israel where he was asked to provide information on Hezbollah officials, including the addresses of his father’s brothers, Ahmad and Kamal Faqih, who are both party figures, as well as information on Amal officials.
The verdict said that Mossad trained Faqih on how to read maps and locate targets such as bridges and roads. He was also instructed on how to provide detailed descriptions of buildings where Hezbollah officials lived, in addition to coordinates of schools, gas stations, Internet cafes, mosques, the Internal Security Forces center in Nabatieh and the Justice Palace.
According to the verdict, Faqih “received during the July 2006 war a phone call from the Mossad ordering him to leave his home in Nabatieh as Israeli planes were going to bomb a home adjacent to his.”
During the period between 2007 and 2009, Faqih traveled again to Israel and met with two officers who asked him to provide information on the residence of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and the building where Israeli prisoners were being detained, the verdict added.
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