German justice today announced the arrest of a suspected member of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah in Germany, on suspicion of attempting to supply material for the manufacture of ‘drones’ intended to be fired at Israel.
According to a statement from the German Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, the suspect was identified as Fadel Z., a Lebanese national, after being detained on Sunday in Salzgitter, in northern Germany.
According to the same source, the suspect joined Hezbollah in Lebanon in the summer of 2016.
This year, continued the Public Prosecutor’s Office, it will have started to acquire components in Germany for the assembly of military ‘drones’ (unmanned devices), namely engines, by order of the pro-Iranian Lebanese Shi’ite group.
“The ‘drones’ were to be exported to Lebanon and used in terrorist attacks against Israel,” said the German Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Today, Fadel Z. was brought before a judge, who ordered his detention pending the presentation of a possible indictment.
The crossfire between the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and Israel has been almost daily since the start of the war between Israeli forces and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, around nine months ago.
Hezbollah claims that it is attacking Israel in solidarity with Hamas, another group allied with Iran that sparked the war in Gaza with an attack carried out on October 7, 2023 in the south of Israeli territory.
Hezbollah’s leadership claims that it will cease its attacks as soon as there is a ceasefire in Gaza and that, although it does not want a war, it is prepared for one.
The escalation of crossfire between the Lebanese Shiite movement and Israel has reached levels not seen since clashes in 2006.
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