Report alleges Mossad recruited Nawaf Salam

Syrian journalist Nizar Nayouf has published research alleging that Nawaf Salam, a Lebanese diplomat and current President of the International Court of Justice, was recruited by Israeli intelligence. The claims are based on an official diplomatic report from the East German embassy stating Salam was recruited in 1979 in Paris by Mossad officer David Kimche. The report details that the recruitment leveraged a bridge built through Salam's grandfather, Salim Ali Salam, and his uncle, former Lebanese Prime Minister Saeb Salam, with historical records confirming the Salam family sold land rights in northern Palestine to Zionist organizations during the British Mandate. The document also reveals Israel later demanded that President Amine Gemayel include Nawaf Salam in Lebanon's peace negotiation team in the early 1980s.