Hezbollah confirms Mossad Infiltration

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, Hasan Nasrallah, confirmed Thursday that a spy for Israel infiltrated the group, but he sought to play down recent media reports that described the incident as an unprecedented security breach.

In an interview with a local television station, he said an official who held a “sensitive” position in the powerful Shiite organization was arrested five months ago for working with Israel’s Mossad spy agency. “He was responsible for one department inside one of the security units of Hezbollah,” Nasrallah said.

A flurry of media reports citing unidentified security sources said a senior member of Hezbollah was apprehended recently on suspicion of leaking troves of sensitive details on attack plans to Israel.

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