A retired Lebanese police officer and a Palestinian were indicted Tuesday for working with Israeli intelligence to assassinate the son of a radical Palestinian leader, a senior court official said.

In his indictment, military investigating judge Samieh Haj accused Mahmoud Kassem Rafeh, a retired police officer, and Palestinian Hussein Suleiman Khatab, of involvement in the 2002 car bombing.

The attack killed Jihad Jibril, a 38-year-old son of militant Palestinian guerrilla leader Ahmed Jibril, in Corniche Mazraa neighborhood in Beirut’s Muslim sector.

The two were accused of “collaborating with Israeli intelligence officers, passing on information to them, establishing a criminal group with the aim of carrying out terrorist acts, including planting a bomb in Jibril’s car,” according to the indictment sheet.

The indictment was confirmed by the court official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

If convicted, Rafeh and Khatab face the death penalty.

The judge demanded that Rafah and Khatab, who are in custody, be tried by a military court and he issued instructions for police to search for other men suspected of involvement in Jibril’s killing.

Ahmed Jibril’s Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, had blamed Israel for his son’s killing. Israel denied involvement.

The PFLP-GC is on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist organizations because of its opposition to the Israeli-Palestinian peace accords and attacks on Israelis.

Rafeh is also facing death sentences in two other cases.

Earlier this year, Rafeh was indicted by a military prosecutor for being behind a 2003 explosion in Beirut that killed Ali Hussein Saleh, an official of the militant Hezbollah group.

In 2006, the Lebanese army arrested Rafeh, 60, on suspicion of killing two Lebanese brothers who were members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group.

Lebanon, which considers itself at war with Israel, bans its citizens from having any contact with the Jewish state.