Israel’s string of recent successes against Hezbollah — alongside operations widely attributed to the Jewish state — are the products of precise intelligence on the inner workings of the Lebanese terror group.
The IDF and Mossad, along with other agencies, have shown that they are consistently able to locate senior Hezbollah leaders and identify where they store key weapons stockpiles and when attacks are being planned.
If Israel was indeed behind last week’s two days of exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, then it has also infiltrated Hezbollah’s supply chains and knows what kind of security checks are performed on new equipment.
As for attacks Israel has taken responsibility for, it’s not only the recent strikes against commanders of the elite Radwan Force, loaded rocket launchers, and other top Hezbollah leaders that show the quality of Israeli intelligence vis-a-vis the Shi’ite terror group. Since Hezbollah started firing across the border on October 8, Israel has been picking off Hezbollah fighters and commanders. It has also killed top Hamas and Iranian officials in Lebanon.
These are the results Israelis — and the world — have come to expect from their vaunted intelligence services.
Read the full article at the Times of Israel.
