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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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Lebanon fails to agree with Fifa on purchasing a license to broadcast the World Cup on national TV.

Qatar helped Lebanon reduce the fee from 6 to 4.5 million USD, but still can't afford it.
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Israeli jets were spotted violating Lebanon's airspace near the coastal cities.
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The information branch arrested 4 spies affiliated with the mossad in the recent weeks, one of who was an ex-Hezbullah fighter in infantry and ATGM units. The ex-member established contact, hoping to get Israeli help to immigrate to Germany.
🔴 The information branch arrested another ex-Hezbullah fighter recruited by the Mossad, identified as Hussein H.

Hussein was active in Hezbullah between 2011-2022, and his father is a martyr. Other family members are Hezbullah members too.
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Lebanese football fans in Qatar refuse to do an interview with an Israeli news channel.

"There is nothing called Israel"
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The explosions heard in South Lebanon are reportedly from Israeli army drills near the Palestinian border.
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Two Syrian children died and their parents were injured in a fire that broke out inside their house in Nabatieh, south Lebanon.
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Intensive Israeli air force activity over South Lebanon, notably over Tyre.
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🔴 The information branch arrested another ex-Hezbullah fighter recruited by the Mossad, identified as Hussein H. Hussein was active in Hezbullah between 2011-2022, and his father is a martyr. Other family members are Hezbullah members too.
Details about an experienced ex-Hezbullah fighter, Hussein H, that was recruited by Mossad.

- His father was a commander killed in an Israeli airstrike
- His two uncles are martyrs
- His family is mostly regular Hezbullah members
- He worked in Hezbullah between 2011 and 2022

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For the second day in a row, Israeli jets continue to violate Lebanon's airspace over several cities including the capital.
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IDF Intelligence chief Aharon Haliva, speaking at the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies (INSS):

“Hezbullah and Nasrallah are not proxies of Iran, but rather, they're now an inseparable part of the decision-‌making process in Iran.

“In the past few months, while we prepared for a possible conflict with Hezbullah on the basis of the maritime border deal, Iran made every effort to provide strategic weapons to Hezbollah. They were an inseparable part of the issue.”
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Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh:

"Lebanon will adopt 15,000 LBP as a new exchange rate on February 2023."
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💸Lebanese banker under German investigation

Germany's Financial Intelligence Unit in coordination with Bavaria's criminal police requested information on the chairman of the board of directors of Al-Mawarid Bank, under the noscript of “the case of Marwan Kheireddine”. This federal unit investigates crimes of money laundering.

Kheireddine is a Lebanese banker, owner of Al-Mawarid (“AM ⁠Bank”), and a former minister (2011–2014). He was defeated in the 2022 parliamentary elections, as a candidate for Amal in the South ⁠III constituency.
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🔴 The information branch arrested another ex-Hezbullah fighter recruited by the Mossad, identified as Hussein H. Hussein was active in Hezbullah between 2011-2022, and his father is a martyr. Other family members are Hezbullah members too.
How Mossad recruited an experienced fighter from Hezbullah, and made him sell his family to Israel

Hussein is from Ghassanieh village, and his family is known to be loyal to Hezbollah.

During his work for the mossad, he was paid a total of about 34,000 USD. This excludes gifts, plane tickets, hotel fees, etc. They covered his travel expenses in full.

How did it start:
Hussein resigned from Hezbullah in 2020 and traveled to Abidjan to work in a plastic company.

- He didn't like the job, however, so he posted his desire for a new one on a Facebook group of Lebanese diaspora.

- Eventually he received a message from someone claiming a that a man will contact him soon. The message went onto say that the man is "a close friend of your father's and would like to help you."
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Unbeknownst to Hussein at the time, this "close friend" was a Mossad agent in his 60s codenamed "Haj Salim".

- He got in contact with Hussein, claiming to be an ex-Hezbullah member who worked with his father. He also claimed that injury forced him to leave the organization and travel to France with his French wife, where he then worked in import/export.

- Haj Salim bonded with Hussein and won his trust by telling him private stories about his father, and stories only his father knew and told him.

- Haj Salim met Hussein in real life and hugged him like a son. He pretended to be a religious person and acted sad when Hussein's father was mentioned. He even led Hussein and some others during prayer.
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- As Hussein asked for a better Job, Haj Salim told Hussein to leave Abadjan and go to Tanzania for work. There he worked in a chocolate factory.

- Eventually, Haj Salim, the Mossad recruiter, found out that Hussein was a virgin who was never in a relationship, so he told him to go to Turkey to meet his friend's daughter who wants to marry. Hussein did as he was told and traveled to Turkey. There, they met and worked together in her company. Slowly, they became friends, then lovers, then had sex together.

As of now, Hussein was oblivious and was still being prepped.

- Hussein eventually left Turkey and went to Belgium, then returned to Turkey before traveling to Macedonia. Finally, he returned to Lebanon in 2021.
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- Lebanese security forces did not reveal how they exposed Hussein's spy work. However, they noted that his village neighbors noticed his frequent traveling and more expensive lifestyle. The countries he traveled to are also considered hotspots for Mossad activity.

- In details, the trannoscript of the interrogations between Lebanese security forces and Hussein span 76+ pages. Hussein lied many times before telling the truth. It was revealed that the Mossad trained him to lie during any interrogations he might face in Lebanon in advance.

- What follows is what Hussein told the Lebanese security forces. He is likely hiding more details.
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...Hussein claimed at first to traveling from Africa to Turkey, but claimed that while sitting in Taksim square, a beautiful girl sat next to him on the bench. He attempted to frame his meeting with the girl as coincidental.

This was a lie to hide how he met the Mossad prostitute.

- After narrating how he met Haj Salim (as written in the above posts), he revealed that he received $3-5k in cash whenever they met.

- Months after, he was asked to leave to Belgium for a villa, where he and his belongings were searched thoroughly by people, he alleges he didn't know who are at first.

- Afterwards, Haj Salim played Hussein's sex tapes (from Belgium, Turkey, and Macedonia) with the girl he met at Haj Salim's suggestion on a video recorder.

- Here, Haj Salim informed Hussein that he was from the Mossad, and warned him that if he does not cooperate, they will publish these videos.

Note: This is all according to Hussein's testimony, he could be lying on being forced to work so he gets a lighter sentence. Nonetheless, Hussein worked with the Mossad and enjoyed the luxuries of the work as described by those who knew him.
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...During this period, Hussein was interrogated by the Mossad. He told them about:

︎His elementary school
︎His high school
︎How he joined Al-Mahdi scouts
︎How he became a reserve Hezbullah fighter
︎How he became a regular in Hezbullah

The Mossad also demanded information about:
︎His activities in Syria
︎His military training in the anti tank units and the artillery units
︎Hezbullah's offensive and defensive tactics
︎How Hezbullah trains its members on the Kornet, ATGM, etc
︎How Hezbullah moves its fighters from Lebanon to Syria
︎How Hezbullah gathers before going to Syria
︎Where Hezbullah's fighters gather before training in Lebanon
︎Where Hezbullah fighters stop in Syria before going to their deployment zones
︎When Hezbullah fighters are handed their weapons
︎Hezbullah's hierarchy during offensive operations in detail; they asked for even the smallest details, such as the distance between each of the fighters during movement
︎Hezbullah's Martyrs foundation: How good their medication is, details about their interest-free loans, their home renovation program, etc
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...Hussein revealed he fought in Qusayr (2013), Rableh, Qalamoun, Aleppo, Tadmour, Zabadani, Homs, etc.

- He exposed his uncle as the companion of Sheikh Mohamamd Kawtharani, the head of the Iraq file in Hezbullah.

- Along with answering all the aforementioned questions and more, he essentially told them all the procedures someone at his level would know.

- After Hussein found out, one way or another, about the girl's Mossad connections, he returned to Macedonia to stay with her, his wife. However when he met her, she asked him to leave the house. He was no longer welcome. Her whore mission was over.

- In late 2021, Haj Salim was no longer handling Hussein. A man called Amir was his new handler.

- Hussein and Amir met about 7 times, where he was taught how to encrypt and send data, how to write reports, how to collect data, etc.

- Hussein's connections with the Mossad lasted for about 2 years. There is no info on why he left Hezbullah.

- After he returned to Lebanon in 2021, he was interrogated by Hezbullah on why he left. His answer was not made public.
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