Category: Targeted Operations
Explore Israel’s most daring and precise missions—covert raids, hostage rescues, and surgical strikes carried out to protect its citizens and deter future threats. From Mossad’s global reach to elite military unit actions, these operations showcase intelligence, restraint, and bold execution. Each mission tells a story of high-stakes decision-making in defense of life and sovereignty.
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Assassination of Imad Mughniyeh – The Ghost of Beirut: Terrorist Behind the Murder of 241 U.S. Marines
On the morning of October 23, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a yellow Mercedes truck packed with 12,000 pounds of explosives into a U.S. Marine barracks at Beirut International Airport. The explosion killed 241 American service members—220 Marines, 18 Navy sailors, and 3 Army soldiers. It remains the deadliest single-day death toll for the U.S.…
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Assassination of the Butcher of Riga: Herberts Cukurs
“The Ones Who Didn’t Get Away” – Part 1 In 1965, a decomposing body was found in a trunk in a vacant house near Montevideo, Uruguay. Alongside the body was a note in Portuguese and German: “Those who will never forget.” The victim was Herberts Cukurs, a Latvian war criminal once hailed as a national…