It may not have been recognized by Israel, but the coordinated attack against it Hezbollahby blowing up thousands of buzzers used by its members, is almost certainly her business Mossadsays an analyst in the British newspaper The Guardian.

Israeli intelligence has been involved in assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders for decades, but if its involvement is confirmed now, it marks a major escalation, reports Dan Sabah.

According to him, the episode demonstrates the desire to target Hezbollah. The group used the buzzers as an alternative to cell phones, which can be tracked.

It is not clear how the explosions were caused and, although there is speculation about hacking, it is more likely that they were the result of sabotage. Initial reports said the blasters were a new model manufactured by a company whose supply chain may have been breached by the attackers.

Yossi Melman, author of Spies Against Armageddon and other books on Israeli intelligence, he said: “We know that the Mossad is able to infiltrate Hezbollah again and again,” he added. But he questioned the strategic wisdom of the attack, in which a 10-year-old girl died.

“It increases the possibility of the border crisis escalating into war,” Melman warned, and argued it was “more of a panic attack” because, while it showed an excellent ability to strike at Hezbollah’s heart, it was neither very targeted nor would it change the larger strategic picture. . “I don’t see any progress,” he said.

A response of some kind from Hezbollah is highly likely, Mehlman argued.

Earlier on Tuesday it emerged that Hezbollah, which has been embroiled in a violent conflict with Israel for months, had planned, according to Israel’s Shin Bet, to kill a former Israeli security official by remotely detonating an explosive device from Lebanon.

This could suggest that the attack on the buzzers was a “whatever you can do, we can do better” warning.

In January 1996 a hijacked mobile phone was used to blow up Yahya Ayyash, then Hamas’s chief bomb maker, in Gaza. Ayyash, known as “The Engineer”, was considered the “mastermind” of carrying out suicide attacks on Israeli buses. His assassination sparked a new wave of bus bombings and did little to calm the crisis at the time.

Khaled Meshal, another Hamas leader, survived an assassination attempt in 1997. The assailants injected poison into his ear, an operation authorized by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while he was in Jordan. Messal survived, and some of the Israeli agents responsible were arrested—prompting Jordan’s King Hussein to cut off a peace deal and threaten to hang the plotters unless an antidote was provided.

A disgraced one Israel he was forced to do so.

Five hours after arriving in Dubai in February 2010, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas leader responsible for supplying weapons, was killed in his hotel room by a group of 11 assassins using forged European passports. Hamas has accused Israel of being behind the operation, aspects of which can be seen in security camera footage released by Dubai authorities.

Since the start of Israel’s latest war with Hamas, there have been many attempts to kill leaders of the Palestinian organization. Ismail Haniya was killed by a “short-range missile” in Tehran in August, prompting threats from Iran to respond with immediate military action against Israel.

Although Iran has refrained from attacking, the war between Israel and Hamas is about to enter its second year, and tensions with Hezbollah in the north have never been worse.