Blowing up thousands of Hezbollah pagers or killing its archenemies in the heart of Tehran – Israeli services have recently proven their effectiveness. However, such killings fulfilled the need for revenge, but did not improve Israel's strategic situation.
Funeral of Yahya Ayyash, “The Engineer”, a bomb designer for Hamas, who was killed by Israeli soldiers by giving him a telephone with remotely triggered explosives. Gaza, January 7, 1996
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