🔻 Prison officials in Israel announced on Sunday that a man from the north of the country was accused of espionage by Iran for "ideological motives".
According to POW media, Wissam Jalib Saleh Awad, a resident of the Arab village of Farza in northern POW, was arrested last month after a joint investigation by the Internal Security Organization (SHBA) and the police regarding his suspected contact with a foreign agent.
According to the Shin Bet and Israel's captives, Mr. Awad contacted Iranian agents through the Telegram messenger program and "while expressing identification with assassination organizations such as Hezbollah, he offered his services for ideological reasons, with the aim of carrying out an act of revenge and without any financial expectations."
The indictment submitted to the district court in Haifa accuses Awad of "giving information to the enemy with the aim of harming the security of the state and communicating with a foreign agent." Also, the prosecutor's office asked to arrest him until the end of the proceedings.