A woman blown up in a car on Thursday may have been an Agent. At first, it was said a man had died in the highway blast. However, after a medical investigation, it was confirmed that the person blown up in the car blast was a woman. It is suspected she was a Mossad agent.
A car blew up in Israel early Thursday morning and shocked motorists. The Tel Aviv car blast killed the female occupant inside. Word has it she may have been a Mossad agent.
The June 4th incident that occurred on Israel’s Ayalon highway during the morning traffic rush took everyone in the Israeli capital by surprise.
The Tel Aviv Car Blast Scene
There was a serious bomb blast right on the busy Israeli highway. Virtually everyone sympathized with the car victim, although they did not know the person’s identity.
Meanwhile, heavy flames rose from the burning car and clouds of smoke billowed up into the sky.
Israeli police arrived almost immediately to attend to the scene. They condoned it and began investigations into what they considered a criminal incident.
At the time, nobody knew what had triggered the Tel Aviv car blast. Hence, the police took up the case as they would any other criminal investigation.
Things Take a Drastic Turn
A few hours into police action, someone posted a brow-raising message on the X platform. The message purported to originate from Handala, a group allied to Iran. The group purported to have information about the Tel Aviv car bombing.
More intriguing was the fact that the alleged group said it knew the woman who was blown up in the blast. Its message introduced the idea of the woman having been a Mossad agent.
Handala claimed responsibility for the blast and said the woman was not an innocent bombing victim but a Mossad Agent.
Mossad is Israel’s secret service that has been in existence since the Cold War. It was established towards the end of 1949. Officially, Mossad is Israel’s Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations.
Astonishing Claims on the Tel Aviv bombing
The group claiming responsibility for the Thursday bombing in Tel Aviv also said that the blast was the culmination of a plot it had mooted months ago. It said the plan was meticulously devised from within the service.
The group’s claim regarding the Tel Aviv car bombing and the Mossad agent is shocking. The Mossad is known to be highly secretive and efficient. And the highway where the bombing took place is always under surveillance. Hence, this daylight bombing in a public place is utterly confounding.
Identity of the Israeli Car Bombing Victim
Although earlier reports had indicated the victim was a male aged 27 years, medical investigations changed that. They clarified that the victim was a 35-year-old female.
Neither the Israeli police nor the country’s medical systems seemed to have any details of the woman victim. So, for the time being, she remains officially unidentified.
Israel cannot take Handala’s word about the woman being a Mossad agent as the truth. It has to do its own investigation.
Handala Puts Israel in an Awkward Position
Handala, the group that claimed responsibility for the June 4th Tel Aviv car bombing, said it knew the woman well. It claimed she was a Mossad agent and that they knew her rank in the secret service.
It claimed she was a senior director in Mossad’s inner circle, a newly formed clique of influence. The challenge the group proceeded to give Israel has put the Netanyahu administration in an awkward position.
Handala challenged Israel to make the identity of the woman public if she is truly not a Mossad agent. According to the Iran-linked group, Israel should at least say what links the woman had with the Israeli intelligence agency.
In the event Israel ignores Handala’s claim, the public is likely to believe the group’s claims. They are likely to believe that the woman in the car was a Mossad agent.
They are also likely to believe that the group sympathetic to Iran had managed to infiltrate the Mossad. This is not good for the credibility of Israel’s intelligence service and security as a whole.
If Israel denies the group’s claims, still, many might see Israel as lying. And in the event Israel confirms Handala’s claims, the group’s profile and credibility would soar to enviable heights. That would be tantamount to promoting the enemy’s image.
Preliminary Findings of the Tel Aviv Car Bombing Incident
Israeli police released some investigation findings that showed the incident was very serious. They revealed that the bomb that detonated inside the car was half a kilogram in weight.
Meanwhile, the investigators are treating the Tel Aviv car bombing case as a homicide case. However, some pertinent questions remain. Was the woman victim a target of assassination?
Was she just the bomb carrier? Was she transporting the bomb to a place targeted to be blown up?
Was she carrying some bomb-making material in the car for delivery to someone?
Iran Also Purports to Know the Woman Killed in the Tel Aviv Car Incident
According to one of Iran’s media outlets, the woman who died in the Israeli car bombing is a former Israeli police officer. Whether she was later recruited as a Mossad agent, Iran has not said.
Although several houir later nobody had verified the police officer’s claim, it helped to promote the assassination story started by Handala.
Seriousness of Handala’s Claims
If a critical mass of people takes Handala’s claims seriously, it would not augur well for Israel. It would mean the woman killed in the car bombing was a Mossad agent. It would also mean that the Mossad has been infiltrated.
Hence, it would mean there is a serious weakness in Israel’s highly respected intelligence agency. That is something Prime Minister Netanyahu would not like to imagine. His credibility, that of the president, and the seniors in intelligence circles would be jeopardized.
Knowing that Israel’s enemy has managed to infiltrate its security agency and gather intelligence would be dangerous. It would expose a serious vulnerability in a country respected worldwide for its intelligence service.
It is serious to imagine that intelligence in enemy hands may have helped in the assassination of an Israeli Mossad agent.
Israel Clarifies the Case of the Tel Aviv Car Bombing
People inside and outside Israel kept their ears to the ground. This Tel Aviv car bombing incident inevitably reminds the world that Israel is at war with Iran. Any act of aggression involving either country right now is bound to be of global concern.
However, Israel has released the findings of its investigations. The 35-year-old woman killed in the Tel Aviv car bombing is Lia Malka, and she had a two-year-old daughter.
She was in the middle of a divorce process and had sued her 32-year-old husband for threatening her. It is also said he had threatened Malka’s parents.
Hence, the Israeli police are pursuing the possibility that Malka’s estranged husband may have organized her killing. The fast response by Israel may help to discredit the Handala story about the woman having been a Mossad agent.