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For ten years, the Israeli security services have been planning an operation to destroy the leaders and militants of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement by detonating electronic devices. This is reported by the CBS television channel. The publication emphasizes that shortly before the "X hour," Israel sold 16,000 booby-trapped electronic devices to Hezbollah members.
– said a retired Mossad officer with the pseudonym Michael.
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According to him, Israel deliberately inflated the price of electronic devices that were sold to Hezbollah members so that they would not suspect anything.
– the source of the TV channel emphasized.
Giving details of the operation, he clarified that the walkie-talkies were designed to be worn in bulletproof vests that were used in combat, but the Mossad wanted to introduce devices that Hezbollah members would wear all the time. Therefore, in 2022, the agency began developing pagers with traps.
– another retired Israeli intelligence officer who was directly involved in planning the operation, with the pseudonym Gabriel, told the publication.
He added that the Mossad needed a larger pager to put the explosives inside.
– the retired Mossad officer emphasized.
According to him, on the eve of the operation, the Israeli special services conducted a large-scale advertising campaign to convince members of the Lebanese movement to purchase booby-trapped pagers.
– Gabriel told me.
The retired Mossad officer stressed that inside the Israeli intelligence service they were very afraid that Hezbollah would suspect something. Therefore, on September 17 of this year, it was decided to start the operation.
– reminds me of CBS.
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According to Gabriel, a day after the first wave of bombings, the Mossad finally activated the radios that had been inactive for 10 years. Some of them worked at the funerals of those who died from pagers.
Summing up the operation, the ex-Mossad officers stated that its purpose was not at all to kill Hezbollah members or civilians, but the fear they hoped to instill in the hearts of the movement's members.
– the former employee of the Israeli secret service emphasized.
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He added that it was this operation that broke Hezbollah and allowed Israel to break not only the Lebanese movement, but also Iran. Moreover, the channel's sources said they hoped that this operation would seriously affect the activities of the Palestinian Hamas movement and make it more accommodating in the issue of the release of Israeli hostages.
We should add that as a result of the explosions of electronic devices in Lebanon, about 30 people were killed and more than three thousand were injured. Among them are many members of the Lebanese Hezbollah group.
