Citing a Lebanese security source, Reuters stated that the explosives were planted inside the compact communication devices, allegedly by Mossad—Israel's spy agency. Israel, however, has not responded to Lebanon's claims so far.

Let's have a look at the operations that have brought Mossad to the headlines in the past. Otto Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi war criminal, had escaped from a US detention camp following his arrest after the fall of the Nazi Germany.