Lebanon's interior minister and two other senior officials revealed today that the Mossad was involved in the killing of a man accused of funneling funds from Iran to Palestinian Hamas. We remind you that the body of Mohammad Sarour, against whom US sanctions had been imposed, was found riddled with seven bullets in a mansion near Beirut on April 9. “This crime, according to the evidence we have so far, was carried out by intelligence services,” Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said in a televised interview on Sunday night. To the journalist of the Al-Jadeed network who asked him if he believed it was the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, the minister answered “yes”. Sarour worked for financial institutions of the powerful pro-Iranian Hezbollah group, an ally of Hamas, according to a Lebanese security source. In August 2019, APE-MPE points out, the US Treasury Department announced sanctions against him, accusing him of being “responsible for […]
Source: News Beast
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