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Deep intelligence penetration enabled Israel to kill Hassan Nasrallah
The success of Israel’s operation stands in sharp contrast to its misjudgment of Hamas’s intentions before 7 October
A hundred munitions – including, it is believed, US-made 2,000lb bombs – were used by the Israeli air force in Friday evening’s overwhelming air raid that killed the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an underground complex hidden in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh.
Nasrallah, who was careful to the point of paranoia about his security arrangements and only rarely appeared in public, would have given little notice of his plan to undertake the fateful trip to the meeting.
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