Cairo, 13 April-(ANA)-The leader of Lebanon's Islamist Hezbollah movement has confirmed one of the group's members is among 49 men accused of planning attacks in Egypt.
The Hezbollah member, Sami Shihab, had been trying to get military equipment into Gaza, Hassan Nasrallah said.
But he denied his organisation was seeking to destabilise Egypt and called the allegations "lies".
Egypt announced that it was holding the group on suspicion of planning "hostile operations".
Hezbollah had told the men to collect intelligence from villages along the Egypt-Gaza border, tourist sites and the Suez Canal, prosecutors said.
The group had received equipment from Hezbollah, and had also been tasked with spreading Shia ideology in the predominantly Sunni country, they said. (ANA)
