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Unveiling Israel's Secret Unit: Operation on Hezbollah Devices
Sep 24, 2024
This video explores the recent attacks on Hezbollah communication devices in Lebanon, revealing the involvement of Israel's secretive intelligence unit, known as Unit 8200. Discover the intricate planning and technological innovations behind this bold operation. #IsraelIntelligence #Hezbollah #CyberOperations #Unit8200 #Mossad #NationalSecurity #MilitarySecrets #Terrorism #CyberDefense #Innovation
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widespread attacks on Hezbollah
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communication devices in Lebanon this
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week have turned the spotlight on
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Israel's secretive unit
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8200 on Tuesday Hezbollah pagers
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detonated across the country
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simultaneously when a coded message was
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sent to
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them the next day handheld radios used
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by the armed group exploded in Beirut
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suburbs and the Becca Valley the
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combined attacks killed at least 37
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people and wounded over 3,000 more
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although Israel has so far remained
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silent on the surprising attacks
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security sources told reers they were
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likely carried out by its mad spy
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agency however one Western Security
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Source said that a secretive cyber
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intelligence unit that is not part of
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the Mad was also involved in planning
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the operation which The Source said was
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over a year in the making unit 8200 is
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the largest single military unit in the
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Israel Defense Forces it functions in a
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similar way to the US National Security
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Agency and according to sources was
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involved in the development stage of the
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Hezbollah devices specifically the
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technical side of testing how explosive
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material could be inserted in them when
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they were
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manufactured although the IDF rarely
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comments on 8200s activities in 2018 it
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said the unit's operations ran from
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intelligence gathering and cyber defense
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to quote technological attacks and
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Strikes reers on Wednesday interviewed
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Kobe Samborski a former member of the
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unit Samborski said he had no knowledge
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that unit 8200 was involved in the
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attacks in Lebanon but said the
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sophisticated operation seemed like the
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sort of projects that drive its members
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so of course I don't I don't know
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anything about it and even if I knew I
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could not say anything but to me that's
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a great example of a can do attitude you
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know if you think if someone would have
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told you yesterday or a day before this
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event that something like this could
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have happened you would say yeah I don't
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think it's possible it looks like
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something from a from a you know science
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fiction movie uh I think those are
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exactly the kind of uh challenges that
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makes such you know young people excited
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and and uh and um uh I think you know a
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great example of of how smart Minds
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could could work to to achieve a
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challenge that looks uh again crazy when
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when you just think of it for the first
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time Samborski also says a Hallmark of
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the unit is its high turnover of young
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handpicked recruits replacing veterans
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people get to the unit mostly the age of
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18 which is of course very young they
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have zero experience Innovation is
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almost an integral part of the of the of
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the culture and it it's it it's it's
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very exciting specifically in our day
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and time where things are moving so
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dramatically so whatever the
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organization learned to do after a few
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years you want to rotate it and you want
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to learn new stuff so with this flow of
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new and very talented very young and
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talented people you get this almost
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automatically some graduates of unit
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8200 have gone on to build Israel's
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private Tech sector and some of its
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biggest companies Samborski himself is
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now a managing partner at an early stage
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fund investing in cyber security and
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artificial
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intelligence unit 8200 also handles
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signals intelligence and effectively
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functions as Israel's early warning
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system as such it shouldered some of the
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blame for failing to detect hamas's
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October 7th assault on Southern Israel
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last week the units Commander said he
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was stepping down in his resignation
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letter carried by Israeli media he said
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he hadn't fulfilled his mission
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