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Hezbollah spy deported to Lebanon | |
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An Israeli citizen convicted of spying for Hezbollah in 2002 has been deported to Lebanon. | |
There are rumours that the release of Nasim Nisr could be part of a prisoner swap between Israel and Lebanon. | There are rumours that the release of Nasim Nisr could be part of a prisoner swap between Israel and Lebanon. |
Mr Nisr was born in Lebanon to a Jewish mother and a Shia Muslim father. He left the country in 1982 and became an Israeli citizen. | |
When his jail sentence ended a month ago, Israel opted to revoke his citizenship and deport him to Lebanon. | When his jail sentence ended a month ago, Israel opted to revoke his citizenship and deport him to Lebanon. |
Mr Nisr was driven to the border crossing near Lebanon's southern town of Naqoura in an unmarked white jeep and handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross. | |
Hezbollah party | |
Hezbollah officials had prepared a celebratory party for his return, with a stage erected near the border and loudspeakers blaring patriotic music across a main square. | |
A more extensive prisoner swap between the two sides could involve two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah in 2006 - an act which prompted the 33-day war between Israel and the Shia militant group - and a number of Lebanese citizens held by Israel. | A more extensive prisoner swap between the two sides could involve two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah in 2006 - an act which prompted the 33-day war between Israel and the Shia militant group - and a number of Lebanese citizens held by Israel. |
There has been no comment from Hezbollah on those rumours, and Israel has denied that this deportation is part of any wider deal. | There has been no comment from Hezbollah on those rumours, and Israel has denied that this deportation is part of any wider deal. |
Born in 1968, Mr Nisr left Lebanon during the Israeli invasion of 1982 and joined his mother's family in Israel, where he settled near Tel Aviv. |