A senior Israeli army officer was jailed for spying on behalf of Hezbollah. A Tel Aviv court-martial on Sunday handed Lt. Col. Omar al-Hayeb a 15-year jail sentence after convicting him of passing intelligence on Israeli troop deployments to the Lebanese terrorist group.
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