Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen and Shi’ite militia groups in Iraq have managed to rack up achievements in their battles at home – and they don’t intend to stop once the war in Gaza ends
Following the assassination of two high-ranking figures – senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri in early January, a day after he arrived in Beirut from Qatar, and Wissam al-Tawil, commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force – Hezbollah has significantly expanded its counterintelligence operations. It understands that its ranks have been dangerously penetrated by Israeli intelligence.
those two assassinations, one right after the other, made it clear that its current methods and sophisticated technological equipment – which was supposed to disrupt the surveillance and eavesdropping carried out via Israeli drones, satellites and other means – were insufficient.
The organization has also been assailed in the Lebanese media over the fact that it is no longer secure: that its leaders can’t protect its members and that Israel is seemingly winning the intelligence war.
In the past, it was hard to find articles in the Lebanese media that ever reported, much less criticized, Hezbollah’s intelligence network. But the last two weeks have seen articles with headlines such as “What intelligence penetration facilitated Al-Arouri’s assassination?” on the Asas Media website; “Hezbollah is addressing security holes that enabled strikes on several of its officers” on the Al Modon website; and “Israel’s intelligence war, which tries to hunt Hezbollah commanders” on the Janoubia website.
Lebanon has two parties responsible for managing the war: one is the Lebanese government and the Lebanese army; the other is Hezbollah. And they aren’t coordinated, either in their methods or their goals.
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