Two Arab residents of a town on Israel’s border with Lebanon are being held as Hezbollah spies. On Tuesday, Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security service announced the arrests in Ghajar, whose Alawite townspeople enjoy Israeli residency rights but largely vow allegiance to Lebanon or Syria.
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