by Naharnet Newsdesk and dailystar 

The General Directorate of General Security announced
Wednesday that it has arrested two Lebanese men, two Nepalese women and a
Palestinian man on charges of “spying for Israeli embassies abroad.” “During interrogation, the detainees confessed to the
charges, admitting that they had called phone numbers belonging to the
Israeli enemy’s embassies in Turkey, Jordan, Britain and Nepal with the
aim of spying and passing on information,” a General Security statement
said.

According to the source, the four are also charged with handing
Israeli authorities information with the aim of assassinating
pro-Hezbollah Sheikh Maher Hammoud, Sunni cleric Saheeb Habli and former
MP Oussama Saed in the southern city of Sidon, monitoring the convoy of
General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim when moving from the
capital Beirut to his southern hometown of Kaouthariyet Es Siyad in
Sidon, and mapping army posts. The suspects allegedly confessed to gathering information on specific
security officials and targets within Lebanon, while taking pictures
and videos of “sensitive” areas in the south and sending them to Israel.

The investigations revealed that the two aforementioned
Nepalese women were actively recruiting Nepalese domestic workers in
Lebanon with the aim of spying for Israel. “They gave them the phone number of the Israeli embassy
in Nepal so that they pass on information about their employers to the
Mossad Israeli intelligence agency,” the statement added. “Following interrogation, they were referred to the
relevant judicial authorities on charges of collaborating with the
Israeli enemy and efforts are underway to arrest the rest of the
culprits,” General Security said.

By Daily Star.com.lb

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon had lifted immunity from
Matar and confirmed that it has been cooperating with Lebanese
authorities throughout the investigation pertaining to Matar’s spying
activities. Several Israeli spy networks have been uncovered in recent years and
the Army has dismantled or destroyed several spy devices found in the
south. Israel also carries out daily drone flights over Lebanon, violating
U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the its summer 2006
war against Lebanon.