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Dan Williams

Israel accuses Hezbollah of trying to hack U.N. Lebanon peacekeepers

FILE PHOTO: Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz attends his party's meeting at the Knesset, Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Israel accused the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah on Wednesday of conducting a cyber operation designed to disrupt a U.N. peacekeeping mission on the border between the countries, and threatened harsh Israeli retaliation against enemy hackers.

The allegation - to which there was no immediate response from Beirut, Tehran or the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) - came as Israeli-Iranian tensions soar.

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