
© Ali Hankir/Anadolu AgencyThe bombing of Mohamed Hamdan's car.
Lebanese security forces revealed on Monday that two Israeli officers participated in the assassination attempt on Hamas official Mohamed Hamdan in Sidon two weeks ago.
According to Al-Akhbar, Israeli intelligence not only commissioned local agents to kill Hamdan, but also had its own team in Lebanon; an Israeli woman planted the bomb and her male colleague detonated it. They left the country using Georgian, Swedish and Iraqi passports.
After the assassination attempt, Israeli Minister of Intelligence Yisrael Katz told the Zionist state's Army Radio, "If Israel was involved in the bombing, then the target would not survive with minor injuries." Nobody is fooled by this attempt at a disclaimer.
The information obtained by
Al-Akhbar indicates that
investigators uncovered the Israeli officers' false identities and photographs, the date that they entered and left Lebanon, their respective roles in the operation and the nationality they made use of in order to move inside Lebanon freely. Lebanon's Intelligence Gathering Division
also identified two Lebanese suspects: Mohammed H travelled to Turkey overnight on 15 January, where he was arrested by local officers after Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri contacted Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan.
The suspect claimed that he was an Israeli citizen to avoid being extradited back to Lebanon; he is now known to have been working for the Israelis for at least five years. Sources told
Al-Akhbar that he revealed that surveillance of Hamdan's movements began more than seven months ago, before he moved to his home where the assassination attempt took place.
Comment: News Flash...Israel is not hiding that it privileges its Jewish citizens and it doesn't care if it uses religious principles, the IDF, or bombing raids to solidify its takeovers of Palestinian and Syrian territories. Apartheid methodology on the part of the Israelis is on the rise and is systematically reinforced each time Israel shuts down another Palestinian necessity or freedom. What President Trump has done is ignite a polarization, on a global scale, opening up harbored issues otherwise stuck in a never-ending and unhealthy dynamic, a detriment for both Israel and Palestine. He has ripped off the scab. How will this heal?