Lebanon has arrested at least five more suspected spies for Zionist regime as it presses on with a crackdown on espionage rings, local media reported on Friday.
The reports said military intelligence suspected that the five men, including retired security officials, were working for two separate espionage networks in northern and southern Lebanon.
A security source, requesting anonymity, confirmed new arrests had been made but would not give details.
More than 70 people have been arrested in the crackdown launched in April 2009, some of them policemen and security officials equipped with sophisticated surveillance and communication gear.
Zionist regime has made no public comment on the arrests.
Lebanon and Zionist regime remain technically in a state of war, and convicted spies face life in prison with hard labor or the death penalty if found guilty of contributing to Lebanese loss of life.
A retired member of the security services was sentenced to death last week for having spied for Zionist regime and for his involvement in the murder of two Palestinian militant leaders.
Mahmud Qassem Rafeh, 63, was convicted of collaboration and espionage on behalf of the Zionist enemy," according to the verdict handed down by a military tribunal.
He was also convicted of involvement in the 2006 car bomb murder in the southern coastal town of Seida of brothers Mahmoud and Nidal Mazjoub, members of the Islamic Jihad group.
On Wednesday, a military prosecutor called for the death penalty for two other men allegedly spying for Zionist regime, including a fugitive believed to be living in occupied Palestine, a judicial source said on condition of anonymity.
The two are suspected of having given Israel information on the resistance group Hezbollah, the source said.
And a Lebanese citizen arrested earlier this month on suspicion of spying for Israel has confessed to collaborating with the Zionist regime, police chief Major General Ashraf Rifi told AFP on Thursday.
The man now faces trial in a military court.
