Body of Mohammad Sarur, a Lebanese official suspected of being linked to Hezbollah, was found riddled with seven bullets in a villa near Beirut on April 9. Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi: "According to the data we have so far, was carried out by intelligence services" A security official who also requested anonymity told AFP that “the perpetrators of the crime used pistols equipped with silencers and erased all the fingerprints” at the crime scene.
In April 1973, the Israeli foreign intelligence service assassinated three Palestinian officials during a spectacular attack in Beirut. In January 2019, the Lebanese army announced that it had arrested a Mossad agent involved in an assassination attempt a year earlier on a Hamas official in southern Lebanon. But Mossad operations in Lebanon date back more than fifty years and are still in a state of war with the country's government. The Lebanese authorities regularly announce that they have arrested people accused of spying for their enemy. The investigation is in its early stages, and is bringing together the elements, particularly telecommunications,” added this official.