"When the freighter anchored at Casablanca for refueling, the pair worked together to plant a palm-sized electronic device weighing about 1 kilogram on the stern of the vessel's hull about one meter below the waterline.

"Ross stood watch while his fellow agent dived and completed the job in about 20 minutes, Ross recalled. They had poured whisky over their clothes and intended to pose as drunks if discovered by guards, but they finished the job without being found.

"An air strike or missile attack was supposed to be made within two days of the tracking device being installed, but Ross received a message from the Mossad headquarters immediately after the scheduled date for the bombing that the plan had beencanceled at the order of Israel's then Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Ross said. "

...AP

So instead they used this pretext (which N Korea called a fairytale by U.S. and Israeli propagandists) to bomb inside of Syria, for who knows what real reason, in an Israeli-U.S. coordinated attack, that received no Congressional advisement or approval.

How many ships have disappeared beneath the waves that were Mossad targets?