Egyptian state media reported Monday that interrogations with Israeli spy, Ilan Grapel have begun.

Egypt’s state security prosecution began Monday interrogating Ilan Grapel, Israeli man accused of spying for the Mossad, after having ordered Sunday his detention for 15 days.

The Egyptian state media have reported Sunday arresting Grapel claiming that he is a “Mossad officer” who “has been inciting chaos and sectarian strife in Egypt during the post-Moubarak period”.

They said that the Israeli man had been “posing as a foreign correspondent… spying on Egypt with the aim of damaging the country’s economic and political interests”.

The state media further published various photos that revealed Grapel participating in February’s protests against ousted Egyptian President Hosni Moubarak, wearing Israeli army uniform and posing with other soldiers, and preaching as well as shaking hands with worshippers at a mosque in Cairo.

On its part, the Zionist entity denied the issue regarding it as groundless and claiming that the reports aim at “maintaining a hostile and negative image of Israel”.