IDF tracker charged with 'aiding Hezbollah in war against Israel'

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An indictment was submitted to the Haifa military court on Monday against an Israel Defense Forces tracker who was accused of divulging military intelligence to Hezbollah in order to facilitate the smuggling of illicit drugs from Lebanon into Israel.

The indictment included charges of treason, aiding an enemy during wartime, contact with a foreign agent, conspiracy to commit a crime and "assisting an enemy in a war against Israel."

The indictment reveals that between December 2007 and February 2008 Louai Balut made contact on several occasions with a Lebanese citizen named Elias Hazbani, who is a member of the Lebanon-based guerilla group Hezbollah. The indictment adds that the defendant used cellular phones to contact two other Lebanese citizens, Abu Hassan and Abu Ali, who also belong to the militant group.

During that time, the indictment continues, the defendant gave Abu Hassan "secret code, a password, recognizable signals or numbers of IDF forces, IDF positions, locations of IDF equipment, military orders regarding operations and movements and other important details in reference to the military."

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