The IDF is stepped up its vigilance along the northern border and Israeli embassies went on alert over the weekend as Hezbollah marked the third anniversary of the assassination of Nasrallah's deputy Imad Mughniyeh. Mughniyeh was killed by a car bomb in Damascus on February 12, 2008. He was Hezbollah's chief of military operations and its liaison with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. He was killed as he made his way to a celebration at the Iranian cultural center in the Syrian capital. Hezbollah and the Iranians blame the Mossad for his death. Since his death Hezbollah has vowed to avenge his assassination and has reportedly tried to do so several times. In the past it was involved in a number of attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets abroad, including the 1994 bombing of the Israelite Mutual Association community center building in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, and the 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy in the same city that killed 29.
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