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An Israeli channel revealed on Saturday that the Mossad agency relayed confidential intelligence to Berlin about Lebanese Hezbollah activities in Germany, prompting the latter to ban its activities and consider it a terrorist organization.
Private channel 12 said the information relayed by Israel to German legal authorities and intelligence services included details of key Hezbollah figures operating on German soil.
In his report, he added that some of the information “also revealed to Shiite businessmen who worked in trade and money laundering, and transferred hundreds of millions of euros to bank accounts belonging to the Lebanese organization.”
This money was used for the activities of Hezbollah cells operating in “Germany,” according to the same source.
The channel claimed that the Mossad provided Berlin with information about warehouses in a southern German city, within which the party had hidden hundreds of kilograms of “ammonium nitrate” used in the manufacture of explosive materials.
He quoted an unidentified Israeli official who said: “The operation was the result of many months of work with all parties in Germany.”
He noted that the heads of the German security services asked Israel to provide convincing evidence of Hezbollah’s involvement in “clear terrorist activities,” adding that “this is what we have done.”
The Israeli official said that Bruno Kahl, head of German Foreign Intelligence (BND), is “a close friend of the Mossad.”
And on Thursday, the German Interior announced a ban on Hezbollah’s activities in the country and classified it as a terrorist organization.
According to the agency of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (local intelligence), there are around a thousand people from Hezbollah in Germany.
In 2013, member states of the European Union banned Hezbollah’s armed wing, but resisted pressure from the United States and Israel to ban it entirely.
