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Nasrallah Assassination: How Israel tracked down and killed Hezbollah leader | BBC News
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Nasrallah Assassination: How Israel tracked down and killed Hezbollah leader | BBC News

How Did Israel Track Down Hezbollah's Leader?

Recent Developments in Hezbollah's Command Structure

  • Hezbollah has faced significant challenges to its command structure recently, culminating in the assassination of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
  • The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) strategically targeted Nasrallah, who had been elusive for years and was a long-standing target for Israeli intelligence.
  • It is believed that the Mossad, Israel's overseas spy agency, played a crucial role by sabotaging Hezbollah’s communication equipment through explosives inserted into their supply chain.

Israeli Intelligence Operations Against Hezbollah

  • The IDF claims to have successfully assassinated several senior commanders within Hezbollah as part of an extensive campaign against the group.
  • This operation appears to be the result of years of intelligence gathering across multiple disciplines, including signals intelligence and human intelligence (spies on the ground).
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Hezbollah has suffered a string of military defeats by Israel, culminating in the assassination of its leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, in a huge bombing raid by the Israeli military. Many more of its senior commanders are said to have been killed by Israel in recent days. It follows the detonation of explosives in electronic pagers and radios that killed and wounded thousands of Hezbollah members across Lebanon. So how did Israel and its Mossad security service manage to carry out these operations? How did it track down and assassinate Hezbollah’s leader, a man who was heavily protected and had had survived decades as head of the organisation? Anna Foster presents BBC News at Ten reporting by security correspondent Frank Gardner. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #BBCNews