Yesterday was “Agents Day” in the military court, which witnessed the trial of six defendants accused of the crime of dealing with and communicating with the Israeli Mossad, including two fugitives, the most prominent of whom was Ali S. A UNIFIL worker who was subjected to blackmail and threats forced him to enter the occupied Palestinian territories, only to return wearing a jacket containing a secret stash containing a few thousand dollars and a wireless device.
He called me p. He unleashed his tongue to narrate what happened to him during the Israeli aggression against Lebanon in the year 2024, when his “old neighbor” Pierre Altounian contacted him since before the year 2000, but Ali cut off contact with him so that the aforementioned Pierre contacted him again and asked him several times to travel to Italy, and the accused then deluded him that his passport had expired and that he could not renew it due to the war.
Following the aggression, Ali fled with his family from one of the southern towns to Beirut. During that period, the so-called “Abu Naeem” contacted him and asked him to enter the occupied Palestinian territories through the Sa’sa’ area near the border town of Rmeish, but the accused did not respond to him, and then tried to evade him, leaving his cell phone in his home in Beirut and heading to his sister’s house in one of the mountainous villages. But the accused was not spared from “Abu Naeem,” who managed to reach him and threatened to target his house in the south by sending him pictures of his children.
Ali finally complied with “Abu Naeem’s” request and actually headed to the occupied Palestinian territories. Upon his arrival, they handcuffed him before bringing “Abu Naeem,” who interrogated him about the locations of Hezbollah’s missiles and weapons stores. Ali then informed him that he did not have any information about these matters, then they dressed him in a leather jacket that he did not know what was inside. During his return, a State Security force arrested him less than a kilometer after He entered Lebanon, and it turned out that inside the jacket was a secret cache containing a wireless device and about 3 thousand dollars.
Ali insisted on denying the charges against him before lawyer Saliba Al-Hajj took over his defense, who considered that what his client did was the result of a state of fear, referring in his plea to what was stipulated in the Lebanese Penal Code regarding the state of coercion and necessity that apply to the accused. In the evening, the court issued a ruling ruling that Ali be imprisoned for a period of two years with hard labor, strip him of his civil rights, confiscate the seized items, and oblige him to pay an amount of one million liras as a fine, knowing that he had already passed. He was arrested for one year and 3 months. In this case, the court also sentenced Altounyan to 15 years in prison with hard labor.
Ali’s condition was not similar to that of Gendarmerie F.H. Although they were united by the same accusation, the latter, under the influence of drugs, sent a message to a Mossad page in which he wrote one word, “Peace.” His matter was discovered by chance when he was investigated for his drug use, and it became clear after analyzing his phone that he had been in contact. He said before the court that he did not know anyone from Hezbollah and had not provided Mossad with any information, “and I made a mistake because I was under the influence of drugs.” The court convicted Gendarmer F.H. Imprisonment for three months.
As for “Chef” Ahmed S. He was detained for six months on charges of dealing. He was acquitted by the court after it interrogated him on suspicion of communicating with a person called “Abu Arz” during his participation in live “chats” on “Tik Tok” in which he discussed political discussions, denying his knowledge that the person who communicated with him identified himself as being from the Israeli Mossad. He confirmed that after a video of one of the conversations was published, he informed the Amal Movement that he belonged to the movement’s Islamic Scouts, which handed him over to the General Security Service.
In this case, the court sentenced Baraa Marhi in absentia to 15 years in prison with hard labor, with disqualification.
In another file, the court interrogated the Palestinian Wael Al-Ahmad, who stated that he was working within UNRWA during the Corona pandemic distributing medicines, and for that he received an amount of one thousand and one hundred dollars in two installments through a bank.
When he was asked about the so-called Tony, he said that he contacted him “and when he started talking to him incorrectly, he blocked him on his phone, but the aforementioned Tony came back and contacted him from a “long number,” asking him about aid provided by Hamas in the Northern Burj camp and whether there were Hezbollah sites in the camp. But the accused blocked the number as well.
Tony did not give up trying to go back and call the accused from a Lebanese cell number, asking him, “Why were you upset and blocking me?” to block him again, stressing that what he mentioned about the names of people from Hamas and how Hezbollah members entered the camp, he mentioned to the investigator, noting that he lost consciousness during the investigation due to the beating he was subjected to.
The court postponed the ruling session until next June to produce the receipts proving that the accused received money from UNRWA and not from any other party.
