{"id":620431,"date":"2026-09-18T22:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/620431\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T22:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:40:20","slug":"israel-police-arrest-suspect-for-making-contact-with-lebanese-foreign-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/620431\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Police arrest suspect for making contact with Lebanese foreign agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 32-year-old man from Majd al-Krum was arrested on suspicion of making contact with a foreign agent several months ago in order to conduct missions in Israel on their behalf<\/a>, Israel Police announced on Friday.<\/p>\n

The man, Hamdan Hamdan, is alleged to have been aware that the agent he was in contact with was Lebanese<\/a>, and to have requested to be given security missions in Israel.<\/p>\n

In exchange for his services, the police stated, the foreign agent attempted to purchase Israeli goods for Hamdan and transfer them to him.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Friday, Israel Police announced that they had arrested a 31-year-old man from Tamra on suspicion of making contact with both Hamas<\/a> and Iran forces in an attempt to aid them.<\/p>\n

According to the police, the man, Sultan Abu al-Haija, had made contact with the military wing of Hamas to covertly offer his assistance, and had also reached out to Iranian<\/a> forces, although he was arrested before being able to conduct any operations for them.<\/p>\n

An indictment against al-Haija is expected to be issued on Friday, while one against Hamdan is expected to be issued on Sunday, the police said.<\/p>\n

In a response to Hamdan’s arrest, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that people in the Galilee were “in the atmosphere of October 6.”<\/p>\n

He accused residents of Majd al-Krum of chanting “long live Palestine,” and said that it was time to bring “the revolution in Judea and Samaria” to the Galilee and the Negev.<\/p>\n

“Within a few days,” he said, “it turns out that what could ignite the Galilee is not shepherd farms, but radical Islamic forces that are establishing themselves in a place where there aren’t enough Jews.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 32-year-old man from Majd al-Krum was arrested on suspicion of making contact with a foreign agent several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13840,1982,20891,51,85,87,46,1158,88,43],"class_list":["post-620431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-arrest","tag-bezalel-smotrich","tag-espionage","tag-hamas","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-lebanon","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}