The Lebanese security authorities on Tuesday announced the arrest of a person accused of being involved in the attempted assassination of a senior Hamas official in early 2018.
In a statement the Lebanese army said that the intelligence directorate was able to arrest on January 21 2019 in Sharhabil area of Sidon city Hussein Ahmed Battu whose mission was to monitor and gather information about Hamas official Mohamed Hamdan before the failed attempt to assassinate him on January 14 2018 through detonating his car.
According to the army’s statement the detainee confessed to working as a spy for the Israeli intelligence apparatus Mossad since 2014 and that he met with his handlers outside Lebanon and received from them equipment he used to monitor the Hamas official.
He also confessed that he started to monitor Hamdan in the summer of 2017 and provided his handlers with the needed information that led up to the day when another group was assigned by the Mossad to assassinate the target.
