Israel charges Swede with spying for Lebanon’s Hezbollah

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Khalil Hizran  (C) a Swede of Palestinian descent  was charged on Sunday with spying for Hezbollah, saying the Lebanese guerrilla group had tasked him with gathering information on Israeli military facilities that might be attacked in a future war.
Khalil Hizran (C) a Swede of Palestinian descent was charged on Sunday with spying for Hezbollah, saying the Lebanese guerrilla group had tasked him with gathering information on Israeli military facilities that might be attacked in a future war.

Israel charged a Swede of Palestinian descent on Sunday with spying for Hezbollah, saying the Lebanese guerrilla group had tasked him with gathering information on Israeli military facilities that might be attacked in a future war.

The suspect, Khalil Hizran, was arrested on July 21 after flying into Tel Aviv, and confessed under interrogation to working for Hezbollah, Israel’s Shin Bet security service said after a gag order on the case was lifted.

According to a Shin Bet statement, Hizran planned to gather information on military sites in Israel, a mission it deemed “proof that Hezbollah is preparing for the next war with Israel and is marking out a ‘target bank’”.

Hizran’s Israeli lawyer, Leah Tsemel, denied the charges.

Speaking to Reuters, she said Hizran had met with Hezbollah members during visits to Lebanon, where he was born to Palestinian refugees and from which he had emigrated to Sweden.

“But he refused any request to harm Israel’s security,” Tsemel said. Hizran made a previous visit to Israel in 2009.

Hezbollah fought Israel to a standstill in the 2006 Lebanon war. Neither side appears eager to come to blows again but tensions remain high. Israel worries that Hezbollah has improved its rocket arsenal and other capabilities while helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad battle a four-year-old insurgency.

Hizran was indicted on three criminal counts. Officials at the Swedish embassy in Israel, and with Hezbollah in Lebanon, could not immediately be reached for comment.

REUTERS

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7 responses to “Israel charges Swede with spying for Lebanon’s Hezbollah”

  1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
    nagy_michael2

    Hey Israel you spy on hezbollah they spy on you. why are surprised? or the hero Pollard that spied on your allies US. why not?

    1. Intouchable Avatar
      Intouchable

      Pollard betrayed his country.

      1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
        nagy_michael2

        no he never betrayed Israel..lol

        1. Intouchable Avatar
          Intouchable

          From which planet are you?

          Jonathan Jay Pollard was born in Galveston, Texas, U.S.

          Jonathan Jay Pollard is a former United States government employee who in 1987 pleaded guilty to spying for and providing top-secret classified information to Israel.

          The former intelligence analyst was then sentenced to life in prison.

          This surveillance video frame of Pollard in the act of stealing classified documents put end to his job for the Israeli’s.

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          1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
            nagy_michael2

            Dude! Chill out i know Pollard was born in the US and he was spying on Israel because of his ancestry from Israel. i know about him.. you guess you couldn’t comprehend my joke.

          2. Intouchable Avatar
            Intouchable

            I don’t joke about such maters as Hassan Khalil Hazran, this Arab have a family;

            According to his daughter:
            “He hates Hezbollah”

            The family says that the man has lived in Malmö for 30 years and works as a taxi driver. He is the father of five children and both grandfathers. His family is in shock – and full of questions.

            – He has not admitted anything, his daughter said.

            – The only thing he has acknowledged is that they wanted him to work with them. But he has refused to cooperate.

            She thinks it may have been during a stay in Lebanon for nearly ten years ago that the terror stamped organization asked the father to work for them.

            – Hezbollah available almost everywhere in Lebanon, there is nothing we can control. And they try to work with those who have a Swedish passport and can travel to Palestine to get information. My dad refused to cooperate with them – he hates the Hezbollah. Why do they punish him for that? Says the daughter.

            – The thing that he would have received money is just bullshit.

  2. Intouchable Avatar
    Intouchable

    The 55-year-old Malmö resident who was arrested during a visit in Israel is now revealed as a Islamist Lebanese active in Hezballah circuits and extreme Shiite groups..

    According to source in Malmö, he has been responsible for the Islamist Shiite group “Libanesiska Huset”, that arranged Al Quds Day, the annual anti-Semitic hate day, on the streets of Malmö together with the Iranian embassy.

    Hassan Khalil Hazran also had the task to recruit other Arabs in Malmö for terror mission for Hezballah.

    http://youtu.be/Njbd9Z9rDc8

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