According to a report, Israeli intelligence services intercepted communications revealing Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr’s plans to marry his four mistresses via telephone.

The New York Times detailed its investigation into the extent of Israeli intelligence penetration of Hezbollah, leading to the assassination of its top leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and other commanders within the Iran-backed group.

Israel announced in July that its forces had carried out a targeted strike in Beirut.

This action followed Israel’s assessment that Shukr was responsible for a rocket attack in Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which killed twelve people, including schoolchildren.

The United States also held Shukr responsible for the 1983 bombing of a Marine Corps barrack in Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 241 American servicemen.

The Times reports that prior to the strike that killed Shukr, Israeli intelligence identified four of his mistresses.

Apparently concerned about his affairs, Shukr sought assistance from Hashem Safieddine, a senior Hezbollah religious cleric, to arrange marriages with the four women, according to two Israeli officials and a European official who spoke with the Times.

Safieddine reportedly orchestrated four phone-based marriage ceremonies.

The intimate details of Shukr’s personal life highlight the thoroughness of Israeli intelligence surveillance of Hezbollah’s leadership.

In addition to monitoring his relationships, the Times report reveals that Israeli agencies recruited human sources within the terrorist group to plant listening devices and uncover hideout locations.

Following a long-term pager attack orchestrated by Israel’s Mossad, and increased strikes targeting Hezbollah leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the assassination of Nasrallah while en route to address the United Nations General Assembly, according to the Times. Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader for three decades, was killed in an Israeli air raid that destroyed six apartment buildings in Beirut on September 27.

The Times reported that Nasrallah ignored warnings from his commanders to relocate from his 40-foot underground bunker before the attack.

Unaware of the precise Israeli intelligence tracking his movements, he apparently believed Israel was not interested in a full-scale conflict.

Israeli F-15 jets subsequently destroyed the bunker using thousands of pounds of explosives. Nasrallah, found embracing an Iranian general stationed in Lebanon, reportedly died of suffocation underground.