Hezbollah’s ‘Death Machine’ Striking Fear Into Lebanon’s Leaders
2nd July 2026
There is a nervousness in Lebanon’s corridors of power. But the whispers are not about the US or Israel. They are about Unit 121 – a threat from within.
Known as “Hezbollah’s death machine” and the most secretive and brutal arm of the terror group, the unit has been linked to some of the country’s most notorious political assassinations, including that of Rafik al-Hariri, the former prime minister, in 2005.
Now, angry at a peace deal between Lebanon and Israel that neuters Hezbollah’s operations against the Jewish state, they are regrouping.
“This is one of the most secretive and lethal units in the world, second only to a similar Russian unit, the GRU,” Ronen Solomon, the author of an upcoming trilogy on Hezbollah and its global operations, told The Telegraph.