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Israel's assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with US-made bunker-busting bombs on Friday came as the result of a critical intelligence breach amid decades of infiltration of Iranian and Lebanese militant command structures, it is claimed.
Nasrallah died in a brutal assault that saw Israeli F-15I fighter jets drop dozens of munitions on the Hezbollah HQ in Beirut - a rapid succession of strikes dubbed 'Operation New Order' that eliminated half of Hezbollah's leadership council and decimated its top military command.
Expert analysts said the F-15s delivered 2000lb Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) that are designed to penetrate deep into their targets before exploding, allowing Israel's air force to eliminate Nasrallah even as he hid in an underground bunker some 60 feet beneath Beirut's Dahiyeh suburb.
That attack came barely a week after the deadly detonation of thousands of booby-trapped Hezbollah pagers and hundreds of radios which killed dozens of people and left thousands injured.
One security source told Reuters less than 24 hours before the momentous strike that Israel has spent 20 years focusing intelligence efforts on Hezbollah so it could hit Nasrallah when it wanted, adding that the quality of the information Israeli military chiefs had received was 'brilliant'.
Meanwhile, another source told French press that Nasrallah's arrival at Hezbollah HQ was leaked to the IDF by an Iranian mole, suggesting the Lebanese militant chief was compromised by his own backers.
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Nasrallah died in a brutal assault that saw Israeli F-15I fighter jets drop dozens of munitions on the Hezbollah HQ in Beirut - a rapid succession of strikes dubbed 'Operation New Order' that eliminated half of Hezbollah's leadership council and decimated its top military command.
Expert analysts said the F-15s delivered 2000lb Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) that are designed to penetrate deep into their targets before exploding, allowing Israel's air force to eliminate Nasrallah even as he hid in an underground bunker some 60 feet beneath Beirut's Dahiyeh suburb.
That attack came barely a week after the deadly detonation of thousands of booby-trapped Hezbollah pagers and hundreds of radios which killed dozens of people and left thousands injured.
One security source told Reuters less than 24 hours before the momentous strike that Israel has spent 20 years focusing intelligence efforts on Hezbollah so it could hit Nasrallah when it wanted, adding that the quality of the information Israeli military chiefs had received was 'brilliant'.
Meanwhile, another source told French press that Nasrallah's arrival at Hezbollah HQ was leaked to the IDF by an Iranian mole, suggesting the Lebanese militant chief was compromised by his own backers.
How Israel pulled off the assassination of Hezbollah chief Nasrallah
Hassan Nasrallah died in a brutal assault on Friday that saw Israeli F-15I fighter jets drop dozens of munitions on the Hezbollah HQ in Beirut
