The employee, who is not named, is a Christian with Italian citizenship, and she visited with her Italian passport. She claims that she cleared the visit with the ambassador, Mira Daher, beforehand.
The woman says she simply wanted to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Lebanon's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says this is an explicit violation of the laws that prevent Lebanese from visiting enemy territory and it caused a cascade of events involving Lebanon's Public Security division.
However, as with everything in Lebanon, there also seems to be a political motive here. Some have had complaints against the ambassador for a while so some of this appears to be meant to embarrass her.
