they have well burnished reputation, shin bet and ma said, for target -- shin bet and mossad, for targetingrseas, but i can't think of anything on this scale. it seems unprecedented, the way they have gone about this. frank: it is unprecedented in scale, as you say, but not in method. back in january 1996, shin bet, israel's domestic intelligence agency, the equivalent of the fbi or mi5, they targeted a hamas bomb maker who had instructed a lot of people in suicide bomb making, and they got inside his mobile phone and were able to sabotage that with about 50 grams of high explosives, enough to kill him. in this particular case, this mass sabotage of thousands of hezbollah's pagers -- pagers, by theay, most of us, these almost belong in a museum, they are 20th-century technology. but they are one-way response communicators where they receive a message but cannot send one out. hezbollah had these, ordered them for their members because it was thought that as low-tech, it would be much safer, they couldn't be interfered with by gps and therefore israel couldn't be able to track their methods.

the idf together with the isa, which is the shin bet, saying that they located him recovered the bodies of the hostages, carmel gat aden erie, sharmy, and we already mentioned hersh goldberg-polin, who we've been talking about, the israeli american alexander lob enough whose wife, if i'm not mistaken, gave birth while he was in captivity, almog surrogacy, and master sergeant omri the nino. so those are the six people that were discovered whose bodies were discovered in a tunnel in rafah in the gaza strip after they had been kidnapped during the hamas-led terrorist attacks of october the seventh. the statement continued saying they recovered these bodies from an underground tunnel in the rougher area in the gaza strip and returned them to israeli territory, saying they were all taken hostage on october the seventh. and were murdered by the hamas terrorist organization in the gaza strip. now, they usually also tell us when they feel in all these cases recently where they found bodies, they've said that they believed that this particular person would have been killed on october the seventh

there has been disagreements between netanyahu and, some in mossad and shin bet and others. and then there are these massive protests by israelis wanting a deal done. you make an interesting point that we see all this protest against netanyahu and blaming him in many ways. but what is the level of support for him in israel is he going to be able to, yet again, whether the internal and external pressures on him and survived, yet again politically the polls say show it very clear picture his support is growing it's maybe an understandable inside israel and outside israel but this is a matter of fact, he is growing and his rivals decreasing in the polls. >> this does not mean much because the polls are today and nobody knows when will be the elections. but all the time we have to remember that there is a great part of israel he's who support netanyahu blindly and automatically and will justify everything and anything he will do. >> or he will not do there will always find justifications and they will always believe that what he did is the right thing. and that he is the wheel l

but shin bet stresses they were watching this assassination attempt for a long time.e to fruition. and the remote device was never activated. but it shows the attempts, particularly in this case by hezbollah, to infiltrate israel and still take out some of the personnel. steve? >> steve: all right, mr. tobin live from israel. thank you very much. meanwhile, 7:31 here in new york city. we have a fox news alert. prosecutors have now charges the suspect, ryan routh with two federal gun charges related to that assassination attempt on donald trump's life on sunday. veto service saying the gunman was hidden in bushes for nearly 12 hours, he sat there. a security hole that agents purportedly knew about for years but still there was no prescreening of the court. >> this was an off-the-record movement it wasn't a sight site that was -- it wasn't part of his schedule there was no posting up of it. we put together a security plan and that security plan worked. >> nicstein was the special agent in charge of donald trump's protection from 2017 to 2019, joins us right now. nic, go

ronen barr, head of shin bet, and david barnia, head of mossad, all four of them emphasize that israel'swithdrawal of israeli forces from philadelphia is actually not a very important action , and it should not be so prestigious as we have at one point. we were not in this axis and later we went and we captured here. if we leave now , we can come back again. netanyahu should not insist so much on this issue. in fact, those institutions whose work is specialized in military and security work put forward such a point of view. well , naturally, they cannot be wrong. they are right from a strategic point of view, and from a military point of view, netanyahu is right , because their analysis is clearly more strategic and in line with military logic, so it seems that the root of netanyahu's insistence on keeping the israeli army in philadelphia actually depends on two reasons. the first reason is that the extreme right faction the same mr. banguire and smoot rich that i mentioned to you , they threaten and in fact renew their threats every week, they reiterate that until we actually achieve a

, it just on the on the surface of it, you know, you've got as you said, you've got officials in shin bet, in mossad, in in the cabinet, the yoav gallant and the negotiators all saying to benjamin netanyahu, you need to do this, you need to do this deal. >> and he puts in more conditions and the deal doesn't get done. how has he survived that? why has he not been somehow overruled by the system? explain that because at the end of the day, he still has a 64 members of knesset majority uh, and for his coalition as long as this is the case, he stays the prime minister and when you have on the one hand, only one member of his coalition, minister of defense galant, who is uh, you know, publicly goes against him and votes against him in the cabinet. but on the other hand, there are another 63 members of knesset who do nothing among them. uh, you know, more than 15 members of knesset from the radical right wing parties who tell netanyahu, if you go for this deal, if you sign this deal, we will vote against you. we will vote in a vote of non-confidence. we will topple your coalition. and when net

just said is one of the most racist statements i've ever known, and and so that it had that sort of shin-bet slsad element to it, so everything they attacked to do with anything, like like anything with the cross on it or the christmas decorations, those those were the things that actually took the worst battering. news of the decision of the state to persecute richard bernard was released the same day. he had been arrested in november. bbc verify appears to have been involved in lobbying for his arrest. it's a new bbc unit for open source investigations, but the name of its star reporter mariana spring appeared in leaked emails between journalists and mi6 agent paul mason and his network. also mentioned there was british intelligence cuttout bellingcat with which bbc verify would later. partner. bbc verify took recordings of speeches made by bernard to the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, richard hall kc. on the 8th of october, bernard reportedly said when we hear the resistance, the alaksa flood, we must turn that flood into a tsunami of the whole world. hall, who performs hi

i would like to thank the air force, the mossad, the shin bet, the idea for the huge achievement.rk to do. in the next few days, we will be facing serious challenges, and we will do that together. nasrallah said that we are a spider web, nasrallah said that we are a spiderweb, but nasrallah said that we are a spider web, but instead of that, he found out that we are a united and strong nation that is determined to guarantee its survival and its future, and not only nasrallah found this out, the entire middle east found this out. everybody who is suffering because of iran and its proxies in syria and iran and other places, all of these people are today filled with hope. i am saying to everyone, israel stands with you, and to the regime of the ayatollahs, i say, anyone who strikes against us, we will strikes against us, we will strike against them. there is no place in iran or anywhere else in the middle east where we will not reach. israel's long arm will reach everywhere, and you know that this is correct. citizens of israel, these are great days. this seems like a historic turnin

the israeli intelligence agencies, mossad and shin bet, have a long history of tracking and eliminatingemies, wherever they hide. israel hasn't yet commented but this latest attack on his brother, the iranian backed group in lebanon, is unlike anything we have seen before. some weeks ago the his brother leader hassan nasrallah ordered his fighters to ditch their smartphones, which he feared israel would be tracking and infiltrating. what they had intercepted was the supply of the new devices his brother was handing out. unwittingly the group replaced their phones with hand held pagers which israel had rigged with small amounts of explosive. the fighters wearing them, had for weeks been carrying these small bombs in their pockets, until today, when simultaneously, they were triggered by a signal sent to each device. at least nine people have been killed and almost three thousand injured. but of the wider context in this war. without pagers, without smartphones, his brother is presumably, at least for now, reduced to sending couriers and paper messages. and that will slow any response. re

and now i'm just like eating shin, bet you very much. >> far from being remembered as the man who cleaned up new york though, spitzer will be forever known for nearly swallowing his own face as he was out and as one of the biggest hypocrites in modern politics, that is what infuriates people more than anything. i mean, the fact that this guy was talking about ethics and morality, even those who say prostitution, it's not a big deal point to the hypocrisy in these allegations that hypocrisy that's present here is going to be his downfall. and when a politician obsessed with being a do-gooder gets caught with his pants down the late night material is endless. >> i sat next to the guy three times. i didn't pick up on any of this and i usually have excellent hoarder but spitzer's sex scandal is not quite like other sex scandals because with no history of inappropriate behavior with women, his self-righteousness seemed genuine or so we believed the eyes of new york are on new yorkers loved him. he was a crusader for the little guy, brave bolt, a great leader who did not have time for distracti

. >> fear that the idf, shin bet and my sad had infiltrated their cell phones.to dumb down this thing. said we got to go to pagers, handheld radios and walkie-talkies. the operation to see that, understand that that's where they were going, develop sources who were able to assist, dangle opportunity in front of them for them to get this gear and then get your hands on it, right, to do the implants and to create the opportunity to remote detonate. that's an amazing operation. >> brian: mike, you know, this al-qaeda stopped using cell phones when it was revealed we were listening in on their calls. they usually use human cure years. hezbollah said stop using cell phone, we will use beepers, now what they do a cup and a string? >> well, and that's part of the reason why this is such an important operation. because the further they dumb it down, the more ininitiate hezbollah comes. paranoia who can i trust? that's always a useful thing, whether you are talk about hezbollah, hamas, mexican cartel, in the old days the ira. if you get them looking inwards, right, and t

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. >> but i think the big point here, you've had people in shin bet say this a lot. i mean, you can win every battle is still lose the war. and i think that israel is very adept at winning every battle. but, but ultimately, the solution is well-known to everybody, which is living in peace with its neighbors. fire two-state solution of getting there, of course, was very hard indeed, it is well-proven. peter bergen, thanks so much as always back after a short break with more week and asked questions like, what does it comedy show doing on cnn? too much but i want donald now can you slice that i got news for you? tonight at nine on cnn. >> ready to washington one second? >> i got it. finished my laundry yes. it's girls night. one second. i use rents wash, rinse, the company that will pick up wash, fold, and deliver your laundry, dry cleaning up a touch of a button. >> i do not trust other people with my laundry rinse guarantees your satisfaction. >> i've been using senior for months now with no issues okay. >> let's watch this. weight. i'm going to do my laundry better,

previous israeli security officials, shin bet mossad of also worked on the same point of view in between 2005 in 2007 years between israeli disengagement with gaza and the hamas coup seven, which pushed fatah out of the gaza strip those two years, philadelphi corridor was monitored by a european assist border assistance mission participation of the palestinian authority and egypt so there is an alternative. >> and again, if you wanted my personal view my personal view is that right now? >> yes. philadelphia is important. but even more important right now is the redemption of the living. and the, and the hostages that remained at neuromas control every day that goes by without an agreement to free those people is a day closer to the possibility that in the amino, there may not be any hostages. so governing about nobody is about choosing. and that's the choice that the current prime minister has made. one last point, i do think they're are negotiations underway between these early to try to figure out whether or not they can reach an agreement on an alternative and then that would be sold

we did hear from the defence minister yoav galant's, who talked about the israeli military, the shin bet, israel's domestic intelligence service, and the mossad achieving quote, unquote impressive results talking about a new era of israel's war. now, beginning as we approach the one year mark of this war, not only in gaza, but also of course, of this cross border conflict between israel and hezbollah and what we're hearing with that is not only perhaps a tacit acknowledgment of israel's role in these explosions in different areas of lebanon. but also an acknowledgement that days after the israeli cabinet decided to add returning the northern residents of israel back to their homes official goal of the current war that they are also turning their attention much more seriously to lebanon, much more seriously towards hezbollah. and we are seeing that not only in rhetoric, but also in action as these israeli military's 98th division, which has been a key fighting force in gaza since the earliest days of this conflict is now being redirected away from gaza and towards israel's northern border

one of the things that both israelis, israeli minister of defense, the head of mossad, the head of shin bet, the commander the idf, also say that this is a hurdle in front of a hostage deal so when we are in this situation, the prime minister suspense time on whether he should fire the minister of defense or not. again, it tells you a lot about his priority and i do want to get some additional thoughts and your reporting on this as well. the clashes between golan and netanyahu earlier last week before all this happened. and then, and then there was the cabinet meeting today. there is a lot of very extreme back-and-forth fighting within within that cabinet and between those two men definitely. >> and today, netanyahu mobilized his entire cabinet i'm an endpoint, organized the attack against golan, one after the other. they attacked the minister of defense, who told them last thursday previous cabinet meeting that their decision about the philadelphi corridor in a week two weeks, three weeks a month, they will have to backtrack because that will be the only way to get a deal if they don't wan

there could be a, could be a deal had they've heard the comments by the intelligence chief for the shin bet and the mossad who said that the prime minister is getting making the wrong assessment and getting this wrong. so there's all this has been building up and i think it just broke through in the passions that posters, the protest itself, and we were watching in the last hour or so protesters blocking that the main highway that runs north-south through television, they will lighting fires. the police were standing back for the most part, it was very peaceful the police containing rather than confronting. but as we were leaving that area, the police were really sort of breaking that up. they were writing through on mounted police on horseback, getting the protesters away, trying to sort of get that road open and you can see there the anger, the frustration that have flown out all night and people were sort of letting the message go for tonight. but but it's there's more coming tomorrow. the municipality and tel aviv going on strike many of the major unions in the country threatening to go

and two, a strong degree, his head of intelligence for shin bet and the mossad, who have been doing theegotiations, you have that division there, but yes. go on an opposition leader figure telling people that this is the moment to come out on the streets with the unions and protests to help bring the country to a standstill. yair lapid, another leading politician in the opposition, telling people to come out and protests on the streets gather in tel aviv tonight for a big protest, you have benny gantz who he was in netanyahu's war cabinet, who left that war cabinet because he didn't agree with the way prime minister, the prime minister is handling negotiations who is gone back to being a leading opposition figure who said a release a statement earlier today, accusing the prime minister saying you called these other hostages who were freed now call the families of these six and listen to what they have to say. that's the mood. >> well, there's be a breaking point for the country will netanyahu actually pivot in terms of his strategy? we will see nic robertson. thank you so much. we're ju

i would like to thank the air force, the mossad, the shin bet, the idea for the huge achievement.izens of n israel, we have incredible achievements, but we have a lot of work to do. in the next few days, we will be facing serious challenges, and we will do that together. nasrallah said that we are a spider web, but instead of that, he found out that we are made of steel, a united and strong nation that is determined to guarantee its survival and its future, and not only nasrallah found this out, the entire middle east found this out. all people who oppose the axis of evil, all those who are suffering under the violence and tyranny of iran and its proxies in lebanon, iran, syria and other places, all of these people are feeling hope. i am saying to the people in these countries, israel is standing with you, and to the regime of the ayatollahs, i say, anybody who strikes against us, we will strike you. there is no place in iran or in the middle east that israel's long arm is unable to reach, and you know now how true this is. citizens of israel, these are great times. we are at what

israeli negotiators, including very high powered negotiators, the head of mossad, the head of the shin betwhat's going to happen. qataris about what's going to happen . and then then they take happen. and then then they take they take the deal back . and they take the deal back. and then that deal gets scotched by then that deal gets scotched by the politics of israel itself. so that's the challenge that i think the wider community, the world have got. how do you square those two things? >> simon diggins, thank you very much indeed . retired british much indeed. retired british army officer. thank you. well, it's good afternoon, britain on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show, including five prisoners are apparently on the loose after they were mistakenly released under the early release scheme. under the government's early release scheme. apparently, 40 or so were just released mistakenly. >> they couldn't make it up. >> they couldn't make it up. >> you couldn't make it up, could you? good afternoon britain. it is now 1228. now, number 10 has admitted to releasing 37 pri

have been so far regarded relatively safer zones which is a few kilometres away from my house in shin betes are actually hitting hezbollah's infrastructure. there have been so far around 500, deaths. and casualties and thousands of injuries and there's worry in lebanon that there's worry in lebanon that the that the narrative that we've seen in gaza might be recreating itself here in lebanon, there are nearly half a million internally displaced people, in the south. and the state is completely unable to cope , with their urgent needs cope, with their urgent needs energy, food, shelter, everything is scarce. and lebanon is, you know, it's very battered with one of the most severe economic downfalls in modern history, the august 4th blast that just happened four years ago and the total political paralysis, which is also thanks to hezbollah's domestic hegemony, that is not allowing us to have any kind of, self—determination here. so, this is the situation. meanwhile, hezbollah is holding on to a losing war, by refusing to dissociate lebanon from the from the gaza war. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> an

some security sources and they told me that while mossad has form for this sort of operation and shin betcommander in gaza by putting some small explosives inside his mobile phone. they said that most western and capable intelligence agencies have the capacity to do this sort of operation . it's this sort of operation. it's just the will to achieve it in war. all the shackles come loose. in some respects, there's a lot of criticism for israel on that point, especially from our government more recently. but when it comes to how they've pulled off this move, some reports coming out today that a couple of israeli companies were set up as fronts over several years, as a years long operation to establish those supply chains, to be infiltrating via hungary. and then when hezbollah surged their purchases of these pages and radios on back of the leader's demands, the explosives were smuggled into lebanon. >> it's an extraordinary psychological victory, isn't it, because nobody in in hezbollah or hamas or any of the other proxies are going to feel safe now because of this extraordinary feat. but b