Spectacular operations by the Mossad Israeli agents have even been active in Switzerland
Hundreds of radio receivers explode simultaneously in Lebanon. Many Hezbollah fighters are said to be among the thousands injured. An overview of their kidnappings and attacks
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- The Hezbollah militia blames Israel for the explosions in Lebanon, which is categorized as part of a series of Mossad operations.
- These operations include the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann in 1960 and a failed assassination attempt on Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in 1997.
- Other Mossad operations include the murder of Mahmud al-Mabhuh in Dubai in 2010 and the failed wiretapping attempt in Switzerland in 1998.
The pro-Iranian Shia militia blames Israel for the coordinated pager attack. This would be one of a number of operations carried out by the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad. An overview.
Argentina, 1960: Abduction of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann
The kidnapping of German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann by the Israeli secret service went around the world. Mossad spies tracked down Eichmann, who was one of the main perpetrators of the deportation and murder of European Jews, in Argentina in 1960. They overpower him on the street in Buenos Aires. Eichmann is taken by plane to Israel unnoticed, where he is sentenced to death and executed in 1962.
Jordan, 1997: Failed assassination attempt on Chaled Mashaal
The attempted assassination of Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, today a kind of "foreign minister" of the Islamist organization, in September 1997 is considered one of the biggest failures of the Mossad. Israeli agents had attempted to spray the then Hamas planning director for the Jordanian capital Amman with a deadly poison. Jordan's King Hussein reacted so indignantly to the poison attack that he forced Benjamin Netanyahu, then and now head of government, to have an antidote delivered to save Mashaal.
In order to free the two agents arrested in the attack from Jordanian custody, Israel is forced to release the spiritual Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin. In 2004, he dies in a targeted Israeli air strike.
Switzerland, 1998: Mossad agents caught trying to eavesdrop
In February 1998, five agents were caught trying to install bugging equipment in a residential building on the outskirts of Bern. The police arrested one man and released four after checking their false passports. The arrested agent gets off with a suspended sentence. The incident played a key role in the resignation of the then head of the Mossad, Danny Jatom.
Dubai, 2010: Murder of Hamas military leader Mahmud al-Mabhuh
In January 2010, Hamas military leader Mahmoud al-Mabhuh is murdered in his hotel room in Dubai. He is first sedated with medication and then suffocated. Israeli media named al-Mabhuh as the mastermind behind the abduction and murder of Israeli soldiers in 1989. The Arab authorities suspected 27 perpetrators who had entered the country with forged European passports and were said to have left Dubai immediately after the crime. Around a month later, Dubai's police chief accused the Mossad, while Israel denied any involvement.
