Tel Aviv District Court Wednesday sentenced an Israeli man to six years behind bars for providing information to Lebanon's Hizbullah movement.
Nissim Nasser was convicted, according to his confession, in the framework of a plea-bargaining on charges of "providing information to the enemy." Nasser, an Israeli citizen that emigrated from Lebanon, was convicted with providing the data to Hizbuallah through his brother, Muhammad, who still lives in Lebanon.
Nasser, a son of a Shi'ite father and a Jewish mother, who emigrated to Israel two decades ago, was convicted of having contacts with a "foreign agent", according to Yediot Aharonot’s website.
From the indictment, it emerges that through his brother, Nasser had contacted a Hizbullah activist, who had recruited the latter to spy for the Hizbullah. Nasser provided the Hizbullah with information regarding assassinations Israel planned on carrying out in Lebanon and in the occupied Palestinian territories. In addition, he was asked to hand over information regarding one of his relatives - - a high-ranking official in Israel’s security apparatus.
Nasser allegedly photographed installations several cities.
Israeli General Prosecutor, Dvorah Chen, for her part, explained the reasons for reaching a plea-bargaining: “The punishment that was decided upon lays within the reasonability realm of the Supreme Court’s judgment regarding such offences. One of the prime considerations which stood before us was to prevent bringing security officials to testify in court. We believed that it was best to let them focus their efforts on preventing the next terrorist attack and investigating terrorists, which have recently been arrested.” (Albawaba.com)
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