An Israeli channel revealed on Saturday that the Mossad agency transmitted to Berlin sensitive intelligence information - on the activities of the Lebanese Hezbollah in Germany - that prompted the latter to ban its activities and consider it a terrorist organization.
Private Channel 12 said that the information transmitted by Israel to the German legal authorities and intelligence services included details of key Hezbollah figures operating on German soil.
In her report, she added that part of the information "also revealed Shiite businessmen who worked in trade and money laundering, and transferred hundreds of millions of euros to bank accounts belonging to the Lebanese organization."
This money was used for the activities of Hezbollah cells operating throughout "Germany", according to the same source.
The channel claimed that the Mossad provided Berlin with information about warehouses in a city in southern Germany, within which the party had hidden hundreds of kilograms of "ammonium nitrate" used in the manufacture of explosive materials.
It quoted an unidentified Israeli official as saying, "The operation was the result of many months of work with all parties in Germany."
He pointed out that the heads of the German security services called on Israel to provide compelling evidence of Hezbollah's involvement in "clear terrorist activities," adding "this is what we have done."
The Israeli official indicated that Bruno Kahl, head of German Foreign Intelligence (BND), is "a close friend of the Mossad."
And Thursday, the German Interior announced the banning of Hezbollah's activities in the country, and classified it as a terrorist organization.
According to the agency of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (local intelligence), there are about a thousand people of Hezbollah in Germany.
In 2013, European Union member states banned Hezbollah's armed wing, but they resisted pressure from the United States and Israel to ban it completely.