The Lebanon Army has arrested a resident of south Lebanon suspecting of gathering information on the Islamist Hezbollah group on behalf of Israel, the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported on Monday. According to the report, the arrest was coordinated with Hezbollah's security services. The report released only the man's first name, Marwan, and said he was arrested about 10 days ago after months of surveillance.
Sources involved with the investigation said the man, a resident of the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh, confessed to having been employed in France by Israeli intelligence services during the early 1990s with the task of spying on Hezbollah.
He was then asked to relay information about the group's headquarters, guerillas and military plans, according to the report. The man was also allegedly told to gather information about the Lebanon Army, said the newspaper.
The investigation revealed that Marwan was not involved in carrying out any sort of attacks and that he acted alone, according to the report. Marwan also apparently decided to cut off all contacts with Israel following the Second Lebanon War, said the report.