Shin Bet Thwarts Hezbollah's Assassination Plot

Israel's Shin Bet agency foiled a Hezbollah plot to assassinate a former senior defense official. The agency seized an explosive device rigged for remote detonation. This echoes a similar incident from the last year. The ongoing skirmishes have marked the worst escalation of violence in two decades between Israel and Hezbollah.

Israel's domestic security agency, Shin Bet, announced on Tuesday that it had successfully thwarted a plot by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to assassinate a former senior defense official in the coming days.

The Shin Bet agency's statement revealed that it had seized an explosive device attached to a remote detonation system, engineered to be operated from Lebanon using a mobile phone and camera. The official targeted was not named in the statement.

This attempted attack mirrors a Hezbollah plot that was foiled in Tel Aviv last year. The developments come as Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have been engaged in escalating violence across the Lebanese border since October, representing the worst escalation of violence in the region in two decades.

(With inputs from agencies.)