Is Turkey Using Hamas Members to Spy on Lebanon?

Moshir Salah Hassanein is said to be Egyptian and a Muslim Brotherhood member.

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(SALEM, Ore.) - Sources report that Lebanese security agencies have discovered some Hamas movement members in this country collect information to provide to the Turkish intelligence service.

According to the news agency, Panorama Al-sharq Al-Awsat, these Palestinian members collect the needed information and provide it to the Turkish intelligence service known as MIT.

In order to collect the news and information in Lebanon, the Turkish intelligence service is served by a proxy named Moshir Salah Hassanein, said to be Egyptian and a Muslim Brotherhood member.

They say this person is in close contact with Osama bin Hamdan, a Hamas foreign relations officer, and that a part of his information comes from this relationship.

It is believed that in order to advance its goals of intervention in Syria and Lebanon, Turkey has taken every opportunity to gain insight into Lebanese affairs, while maintaining a close alliance with Israel, and instead of supporting Palestinian groups in occupied territory conflicts, they use Hamas forces as a tool for their own purposes.