{"id":17540,"date":"2025-10-09T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T02:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/?p=17540"},"modified":"2025-10-09T18:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:45:55","slug":"lebanon-has-arrested-32-people-suspected-of-spying-for-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/?p=17540","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon has arrested 32 people suspected of spying for Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon has arrested 32 people in recent months on suspicion of providing Israel with information on Hezbollah that facilitated strikes on the Iran-backed militant group, a judicial official told AFP on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>More than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah including two months of open war saw Israel pummel the group&#8217;s arsenal and kill a slew of senior commanders, and it has kept up strikes since a November truce.<\/p>\n<p>Requesting anonymity, the official said that &#8220;at least 32 people have been arrested on suspicion of collaborating with Israel, six of them before the ceasefire&#8221;.So far, &#8220;nine people have been tried by the military court&#8221;, while 23 are still under investigation, the official added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon has arrested 32 people in recent months on suspicion of providing Israel with information on Hezbollah that facilitated strikes on the Iran-backed militant group, a judicial official told AFP on Thursday. More than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah including two months of open war saw Israel pummel the group&#8217;s arsenal and kill a slew of senior commanders, and it has kept up strikes since a November truce. Requesting anonymity, the official said that &#8220;at least 32 people have been arrested on suspicion of collaborating with Israel,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17541,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions\/17541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}