Lebanon intel chief passed top secret info to Hezbollah
JERUSALEM – With a precarious security situation in Lebanon marred by the deaths of some 22 people on Sunday, who encouraged by Hezbollah operatives encroached on IDF positions in the south of the country, the news a senior Lebanese intelligence chief passing on secrets to the Iranian terrorist proxy could hardly have come at a worse time.
According to a an exposé published in the Times of London, Suhil Bahij Gharb leaked secrets to Hezbollah during the ceasefire agreement with Israel. The report stated “sensitive information” was leaked to the terrorist organization from a security control room managed by the United States, France, and the so-called U.N. peacekeeping force, or UNIFIL.
The depth of collusion between UNIFIL – another U.N. organization, just like UNRWA, which seems to exclusively be working for the terrorists – and Hezbollah has not been in question.
However, the revelation about the depth of collaboration between the Lebanese Army and the Iranian proxy, at a time when the IDF and Israel is supposed to rely on the former to patrol the border area the Israeli military currently occupies, is of deep concern.
According to an International Intelligence Report released by The Times; Suhil Bahij Gharb, the Head of Lebanese Military Intelligence in Southern Lebanon, as well as over a Dozen other Officers in the Lebanese Army, have been actively sharing Top-Secret Information about Israeli… pic.twitter.com/de5Qz7is1N
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The Times alleged the information Gharb passed to Hezbollah jeopardized the ceasefire, which took months of careful negotiation and shuttle diplomacy from the likes of former Biden advisor Amos Hochstein to achieve.
To make matters additionally serious, it is thought Gharb was far from the only Lebanese Army intelligence operative to pass on information to Hezbollah. Their advanced warnings of planned raids or patrols allowed the terrorist group hide weapons and evade exposure.
“Hezbollah is using internal and sensitive information regarding the Lebanese army to conceal its operations from international bodies tasked with regional security,” the intelligence document charged.
Gharb, a Shiite Muslim, was said to have been allowed to enter the international situation room at the insistence of the senior Hezbollah commander Wafiq Safa, who heads the terrorist organization’s Liaison and Coordination Unit and reportedly survived an Israeli assassination attempt on Oct. 10, 2024.
Meanwhile, the White House announced Sunday it had extended the ceasefire agreement until Feb. 18, following an urgent request from Israel. The original ceasefire was set to have expired at midnight Sunday, but the IDF was reluctant to withdraw from its positions as it didn’t assess the Lebanese Army, which is supposed to replace it, had established enough of a foothold to prevent Hezbollah from dominating the area once again.
The White House has announced that the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will be extended until February 18, 2025. This extension allows for continued negotiations, facilitated by the United States, concerning the return of Lebanese prisoners captured after October 7, 2023.… pic.twitter.com/F6XfdqxNhh
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The ceasefire came under extreme pressure on Sunday after the Israeli military accused Hezbollah operatives of encouraging Shiite residents of southern Lebanese towns and villages of attempting to return to their homes – despite IDF warnings it was still operating in the area.
The Lebanese Health Ministry said 22 people were killed in the skirmishes and some 120 wounded.