Lebanon accuses Israel of erecting border surveillance posts
Speaker of parliament in Beirut complains that ‘spying stations’ along the frontier are monitoring the entire country
Stuart Winer is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.
The speaker of the Lebanese parliament called for his country to lodge an official complaint with the United Nations after accusing Israel of setting up a chain of surveillance positions along its border with Lebanon.
“Israel installed and is still installing spying stations along the border with Lebanon, starting from Naqoura passing by Khiam and all the way to Shebaa,” Speaker Nabih Berri said a weekly meeting with members of Parliament, the Daily Star Lebanon reported on Wednesday, citing the National News Agency.
Berri claimed that the listening stations were linked to centers on the Golan Heights and Shebaa farms area, and that information was beamed from there to Tel Aviv. According to Berri, who showed parliamentarians photographs and documents that he said supported his claims, the spy stations had equipment enabling them to monitor the whole of Lebanon.
The speaker said he asked the Information and Telecommunications parliamentary committee to review the matter and take action in the form of an official complaint to the United Nations.
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Israel has been accused in the past of planting listening devices in Lebanon. In May, Syrian officials claimed they uncovered Israeli devices capable of wiretapping, photographing, recording and broadcasting data.
