Report: Senior Lebanon army official leaked ceasefire control room intel to Hezbollah
Suhil Bahij Gharb, chief of intelligence for south Lebanon, said to have given terror group material from inside the US, French and UN office tasked with monitoring truce

A senior member of the Lebanese Armed Forces has been leaking sensitive intelligence information to Hezbollah operatives during the ceasefire with Israel, the UK’s Times newspaper reported Sunday.
Citing unnamed intelligence sources, the report alleged that Suhil Bahij Gharb, the chief of military intelligence for southern Lebanon, has passed information to Hezbollah from inside a security control room operated by the US, French and UN officials tasked with overseeing the ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group.
The November 27 ceasefire deal stipulated that Hezbollah pull back its forces north of the Litani River — about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the border — and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese military was to deploy alongside UN peacekeepers in the south as the Israel Defense Forces withdrew, all within 60 days.
Israel demanded an extension to a Sunday deadline, charging that the Lebanese army had not fulfilled its commitments to deploy in the area and that Hezbollah was violating the ceasefire terms. The extension was granted and has been accepted by the Lebanese government — though reportedly not by Hezbollah.
According to the Times, Gharb’s presence in the security control room was authorized after pressure from senior Hezbollah commander Wafiq Saffa, who survived an Israeli assassination attempt in October 2024.
The Times said that Gharb is not the only Lebanese military official to have leaked information to Hezbollah. Citing an “international intelligence report,” the UK news outlet asserted that dozens of officers have assisted Hezbollah, including by alerting the group to imminent raids, thereby giving operatives time to flee the area.
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The leaks have enabled Hezbollah to maintain weapons close to the border, the intelligence report said, which would be a direct violation of the ceasefire terms and a primary concern for Israel.
Hezbollah uses “internal, sensitive information regarding the Lebanese army” to hide its activities from international security entities, the Times cited the assessment as saying.
As a result, there is concern over the ability of the Lebanese army to control south Lebanon instead of Hezbollah, as is stipulated in the ceasefire, the assessment is said to conclude.
The Times does not say which country provided the intelligence report.
It added that the Lebanese military did not respond to a request for comment, nor did UNIFIL, the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
The November deal ended two months of full-scale war that followed months of lower-intensity exchanges. Hezbollah began near-daily attacks on northern Israel one day after the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by its Palestinian ally Hamas, which triggered the war in Gaza.
Tens of thousands of Israeli residents of the north were displaced by the attacks, with rocket fire eventually spreading to the center of the country.

Hezbollah, badly weakened by Israel during the war, has put the onus on the Lebanese state to ensure the IDF’s withdrawal, describing Israel’s failure to leave southern Lebanon by the deadline as a violation of the agreement.
Israel’s military says its forces have continued to uncover and seize Hezbollah weapons in prohibited areas and that the Lebanese army is not keeping to its part of the deal.
Last week, the Kan public broadcaster reported that IDF officials have repeatedly warned about Hezbollah violations including in December when the head of IDF Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Hezbollah has broken the terms of the ceasefire hundreds of times.
Gordin told the committee members that the Lebanese army is in some places helping the terror group. He reportedly said that is happening in areas where the Lebanese army commanders on the ground and their units are Shiite Muslims, in line with the ideology of Hezbollah and its sponsor Iran.
According to the report, army representatives gave a similar update during a closed-door meeting of the committee that was held last week at the Knesset.