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Israeli intelligence foils Hezbollah bomb attack on official
Israel’s domestic intelligence service, Shin Bet, said it had foiled a bomb attack by the Lebanese Shiite militia, Hezbollah, targeting a former senior Israeli security official.
The attack had been planned for the coming days, according to Shin Bet.
According to a statement by Israel’s domestic intelligence service, an explosive device had been equipped with a remote detonator and connected to a camera and a mobile phone, which would have allowed the bomb to be detonated from Lebanon by the militia group.
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The intelligence service also accused Hezbollah of being responsible for an attempted attack in a park in Tel Aviv in September last year.
At the end of July, an Israeli attack on a house in a suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut killed a high-ranking commander of the Shiite militia, Fuad Shukr.
Hezbollah responded by threatening retaliation.
NAN
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