Inside Israel's Trojan Horse pager attack: How explosives were secretly planted in Hezbollah gadgets in meticulously-planned 'Mossad op' as murky trail emerges from Taiwan to Hungarian 'factory'

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Professor Andreas Krieg, Middle East expert, senior lecturer at the School of Security Studies at King's College London, said: 'Regardless of how they sourced it or how they procured this device, Israel has been able to infiltrate and compromise the supply chain.

'Tampering with a physical device that then was rolled out across the network of Hezbollah is quite extraordinary because it requires coordination, and it likely requires someone on the inside who is cooperating.

'If you look at the wider picture that's emerging over the last couple of months, it seems like the Israelis have been been fairly successful on the intelligence front in compromising their foes, given who they've targeted and how precisely they have been able to do so.

If you look at the way that they killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, for example, it suggests Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranians are heavily infiltrated - there may also be are certain people who cooperate with the Israelis.'

Period	18 Sept 2024
Held at	Daily Mail, United Kingdom