Financial Times: Hezbollah’s intervention in Syria enabled Israel to penetrate it
The Financial Times newspaper confirmed, on October 29, that the weakness of Hezbollah’s structure due to its involvement in the Syrian conflict allowed Israeli intelligence to develop techniques to determine the locations of the Hezbollah leaders, including its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
This came in a report by the newspaper published yesterday, Sunday, in which it detailed the role of “Hezbollah” in Syria, and how this allowed Israel to penetrate information about it.
According to the report, Israel, in its war with Hezbollah in 2006, attempted to assassinate Hassan Nasrallah three times in an airstrike, but Nasrallah survived because he left the site before the attack.
On Friday night, the Israeli military was able to track Nasrallah to a bunker deep under a residential complex in southern Beirut, and dropped up to 80 bunker-busting bombs to ensure he was killed, according to Israeli media.
“We will reach everyone, everywhere,” said the pilot who flew the plane that dropped the deadly bombs, as the Israeli military said the bombing destroyed at least four residential buildings, according to the report.
The report explained that the Syrian war led to the creation of a rich source of data, many of it available to Israeli spies and the processing algorithms to analyze that data.
A former high-ranking Lebanese politician in Beirut stated that penetrating Hezbollah by Israeli or US intelligence was “the price they paid for supporting Bashar al-Assad,” and added: “They had to reveal themselves in Syria.”
