According to Israeli security officials, Mossad has begun planning its latest operations against Hezbollah For more than a decade, he studied the group’s strengths and weaknesses and carried out a series of surprise operations on the ground.
According to a report by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the intelligence information not only indicates the underground movements of Nasrallah and his companions, but also determines the destructive force necessary to penetrate the fortifications and reach him in his hideout.
The newspaper said, “Intelligence information provided to the Israeli Air Force determined the exact location of the room in which he met Nasrallah With senior Hezbollah leaders, and also the depth of the hideout to which they resorted to hold important meetings and develop plans in an attempt to repel attacks. Israel“.
The intelligence also allowed the Israeli pilots to calculate the angles at which the bombs should strike, and the height from which they should be launched, to reach the part of the bunker where the “precious catch” was located.
According to Yedioth Ahronoth, this information could only be obtained through a series of intelligence operations over a long period of time, extending for years.
Where did Israel get this information?
According to the newspaper’s report, there are 3 main sources for this information:
- Unit 8200 in the Israeli army, which provides military intelligence with accurate information through modern technological means.
- Unit 504 of the Israeli army, which collects information from “human sources” on the ground.
- The visual means used by the Israeli army to determine coordinates and locations, as it often relies on drone flights overhead Lebanonespecially the south and the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Yedioth Ahronoth says that this information is provided to the Air Force to plan attacks, including Friday’s strike on the southern suburb of Beirut, in which Nasrallah and other Hezbollah leaders were killed.
Even after this devastating attack, the work of the Israeli intelligence services did not stop, but this time to measure the impact of the strike and confirm its results.
