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Lebanese authorities arrested and deported a dual American-Israeli citizen in Beirut last week, two security and judicial sources said yesterday.
“Joshua Samuel Tartakovsky, a journalist with Israeli, US and British passports, was detained on October 5 and deported the following day,” an unnamed judicial official said.
A security official, who requested anonymity, said Hezbollah members detained Tartakovsky and handed him over to military intelligence, but said he was not a journalist.
Tartakovsky had gone to southern Beirut in search of Hezbollah sites, presenting himself as a “supporter of Gaza and Hezbollah,” the security source said.
A spokeswoman at the US embassy told AFP that the embassy is aware of the arrest and “due to privacy reasons have no further information to provide.”
Israeli citizens are not allowed to travel to Lebanon under both Lebanese and Israeli laws.
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