Spy? Ali Jarrah
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Lebanon prosecutor seeks execution of Israeli 'spies'
Beirut military prosecutor demands Yusef and Ali Jarrah, who were charged with spying for Israel be condemned to death if convicted
A Lebanese military prosecutor said Tuesday he has demanded that two brothers charged with spying for Israel be condemned to death if convicted.
Rashid Muzhir told AFP he has called for the "harshest punishment" for Yusef and Ali Jarrah, who have been charged with several counts of spying for Israel and of forgery.
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The prosecution alleges that the brothers were recruited by Israel's Mossad spy agency in the early 1980s and gathered information on the militant Islamist group Hizbullah, Lebanese army positions and Palestinian groups in the country. Muzhir did not say when they would face trial.
The Jarrah brothers, who are from the eastern Bekaa region, were detained last year by Hizbullah, which fought a devastating 34-day war with Israel in Lebanon in 2006.
Last month, the Lebanese army also detained a man from the southern town of Nabatiyeh on suspicion that he spied for Israel. He has not yet been charged.
