The State Attorney's Office filed an indictment today (Thursday) in the Haifa District Court against Ahmed Shehab, 32, from Jisr a-Zarqa, after he passed on news reports about missile strikes during Operation 'Am Kalavi' to an Iranian official.
According to the indictment, filed by Attorney Sharon Edri of the Haifa District Attorney's Office, during Operation 'Am Kalavi', the defendant contacted a person using the Telegram app who posed as a German media figure, and promised the defendant that he would pay him money for information about Iranian missile strikes on Israeli territory.
The defendant understood that the man was a foreign agent for Iran, but on several occasions sent him news reports about the locations of the missiles' landings and the damage caused - which he had obtained from Israeli news websites.
In total, he liked about 40 pieces of news, for which he received about 1,200 shekels in the PayPal app.
As part of the conversation, the Iranian agent asked the defendant to take photos of missile landing sites himself, and even ordered him a camera designed for this purpose. Shahab was unable to obtain the camera.
After some time, the defendant asked the Iranian agent to transfer money to him in cash instead of through the app. The agent instructed him to go to a cafe in Haifa, where he secretly met with another person who handed him an envelope containing approximately 3,000 shekels in cash.
The indictment charges the defendant with the offenses of contacting a foreign agent and providing information to the enemy that could be of benefit to him.
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