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LONG ARM OF MOSSAD: A stunning series of assassinations that wiped out senior leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah left Israel once again bracing for an expected retaliation from Iran and the United States rushing to help. 

Israel demonstrated its lethal reach in dramatic fashion this week.  On Friday, Israel reported it had eliminated Islamic Jihad commander Mohammed al-Jabari, the terror group’s deputy head of weapons manufacturing. On Thursday, Israel said an airstrike last month in Gaza killed Muhammad Deif, the leader of Hamas’s military wing who plotted the Oct. 7 attack. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ political leader, was killed in Iran Wednesday. An Israeli airstrike Tuesday in a Beirut suburb killed Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr, who Israel blamed for a missile strike on July 27 that killed 12 children playing soccer in the Golan Heights.

Haniyeh’s assassination shook Iran. There were multiple reports about what killed him, but one of the most intriguing was a suspected Israeli bomb plot months in the making.