SAEDNEWS: Israeli prosecutors have indicted a Jewish settler on charges of spying for Iran after he allegedly conveyed information to Tehran about damage sustained by an Israeli airbase during an Iranian missile strike.
Prosecutors said Sunday that the settler had conveyed “sensitive information” before and during Israel’s 12-day war of aggression against the Islamic Republic in June.
The suspect—who, according to prosecutors, was originally from Iran—allegedly “maintained contact with a foreign agent and transmitted information with intent to harm state security."
Prosecutors claimed the settler passed the information on to Iran during a period when Israel was fighting "a multi-front war, particularly with Iran, and under missile attack.”
Among other things, he is accused of informing an Iranian agent that the Islamic Republic’s two missile barrages at Israel in 2024 had struck the Nevatim airbase, in the southern Negev desert.
The suspect, they said, also informed Tehran about Israel’s “intentions to strike Iran,” and “the flight path of Israeli drones.”
The suspect’s name and most identifying details have been barred from publication.
Israel has arrested several people on suspicion of spying for Tehran since the regime launched its brazen, unprovoked aggression against the Islamic Republic on June 13.
During the 12-day aggression, the regime’s chief military censor announced new rules and ordered editors to take “strict measures” when reporting on Iran’s missile and drone attacks.
The censor also warned against reporting anything that could reveal attack positions, air defense operations, or damage assessments that could “assist the enemy.”
During the imposed war on the Islamic Republic in June, the country's armed forces pounded Israel and its military and industrial infrastructure, using new-generation missiles that precisely hit designated targets.
Iran also launched hundreds of missiles towards the occupied territories on October 1, 2024, in a retaliatory attack dubbed Operation True Promise II, which had been more than 90% successful, according to Iranian officials.
A Washington Post video analysis also showed at the time that at least two dozen Iranian ballistic missiles broke through the regime’s air defenses and struck three intelligence and military targets, including 20 direct hits on Nevatim airbase and three on Tel Nof airbase.
