“A military court handed down sentences to 57 suspects accused of collaboration with “Israel” on Tuesday, including one of 10 years to a double agent who turned over his own sister to the “Israelis”.
Ibrahim Beydoun, a former member of “Israel’s” now-defunct proxy militia said he went to an “Israeli” officer after his sister Sonia proposed that he work as an agent for the resistance.
He testified that the officer gave him a small recording device that taped everything his sister said, although Beydoun said he eventually destroyed the recorder and confessed.
Sonia was detained for a few months in the militia controlled Khiam detention center before being expelled from the occupied zone. He himself was also held at Khiam for four years.
The military court also forbade Beydoun from entering the former occupied zone for 10 years after he finishes his prison term.
The other defendants received the usual prison terms of between a few months and a few years, in addition to orders prohibiting them from returning to their home areas for several years after they finish serving their sentences.
The court postponed for two weeks consideration of the cases of 63 other alleged collaborators after their lawyers requested time to study their clients’ files. The trials of all suspects opened on Monday.
The latest sentences, handed down overnight, bring to 662 the number of verdicts reached since the court began holding three weekly sessions on June 5 to try some 2,200 Lebanese accused of collaborating with “Israel””.

The Daily star, 5-7-2000.