A woman in her 20s from the Arab-majority city of Tayibe has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for spying for Hezbollah.
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Maibat Masarwa was convicted by a Lod District Court on charges of contact with a foreign agent and passing information to an enemy after she admitted to photographing defense sites and passing the information to a Hezbollah operative.
According to the indictment, a Lebanese Hezbollah operative contacted Masarwa on Facebook in 2018 and asked her to take pictures from inside Israel.
Masarwa provided the operative with 12 images of military vehicles, the border fence near Rosh Hanikra, and Iron Dome batteries, among other things. According to the indictment, Masarwa went out of her way, driving to far-off destinations, to take the pictures in question.
Masarwa also sent the operative pictures of Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa following an incident between the IDF and Hezbollah on the country's northern border.
According to Masarwa, she initially believed the operative to be an Israeli citizen as he had communicated with her in Hebrew. She said the operative later presented himself as a Lebanese journalist looking for information and images for a story he was writing on the status of the countries' relationship. She said she cut off all contacts with the operative when his requests grew suspicious and had acted out of ignorance.
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