The Lebanese authorities are demanding that the Ukrainian embassy in Beirut hand over one of its nationals, who took refuge there after fleeing the southern suburb of Beirut, where he was being held by Hezbollah, on suspicion of involvement with the Israeli Mossad, according to what a security official and a source in Hezbollah told Agence France-Presse.
The Director General of Lebanese Public Security, Major General Hassan Choucair, told Agence France-Presse that, “The Ukrainian embassy in Lebanon wrote to us on March 10, requesting that a pass permit be given to one of its citizens who was there, after he lost his passport, so that he could leave through Beirut Airport.”
He added, “After checking his name and photo, we found that he is wanted by the Lebanese judiciary, and several search and investigation reports were issued against him for the security services. We informed the Ukrainian embassy of this and that it must hand him over immediately to the Lebanese authorities.”
He explained that he was “wanted for his involvement with a cell affiliated with the Israeli Mossad in planning to carry out assassinations and bombings in the southern suburb of Beirut.”
In September, according to what a source in the party told Agence France-Presse, Hezbollah arrested a Palestinian-Syrian citizen with Ukrainian citizenship “after he parked his motorcycle on the road leading to Beirut International Airport. It turned out that a highly explosive explosive device had been planted in it in the form of a battery.”
The man remained detained by the party for months, until Israel launched a raid on March 6 on the southern suburb of Beirut, specifically on a building adjacent to the one in which he was detained, which led to his escape and heading to the Ukrainian embassy, according to the same source.
The General Security Service was able to arrest five individuals from the group that worked with the aforementioned person, and referred them to the Lebanese judiciary, which interrogated them.
