For the first time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement regarding the pager attack in Lebanon has come to light. He confirmed on Sunday that he had approved the pager attack on targets of the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah in September, which killed about 40 militants and injured more than 3,000.
Netanyahu spokesman Omar Dostri told AFP news agency, “Netanyahu confirmed on Sunday that he had given the green light to the pager operation in Lebanon.”
At a cabinet meeting on Sunday 10 November, Netanyahu also acknowledged that the Israeli military, after receiving direct orders, carried out a precision strike in Beirut, killing Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
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“The pager operation and the killing of (Hassan) Nasrallah were carried out despite opposition from senior officials in the defense establishment and those responsible for him in the political sphere,” The Times of Israel quoted Netanyahu as saying.
Let us tell you that between September 17 and 18 this year, thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah exploded, killing about 40 people and injuring more than 3,000.
According to sources, pagers used by Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon exploded in just 30 minutes, while Hezbollah fighters were using pagers that had no GPS, no microphones and cameras to protect them from Israeli radar. .
Lebanon said earlier this week that it had filed a complaint with the UN labor agency over the deadly attacks, accusing Israel of waging a terrible war against humanity and technology.
Iran also attacked Israel
Let us tell you that after Israel’s operation in Lebanon and the assassination of Hezbollah chief, Iran bombarded the Jewish nation with missiles, targeting its main areas including military establishments. According to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGS), Iran used its hypersonic Fatah missiles in the attack against Israel, with more than 400 projectiles hitting their targets. However, Israel rejected Iran’s claims and said most of the missiles were intercepted by Israel and the US-led defensive alliance.
It is noteworthy that there has been a turbulent security situation in the Middle East for more than a year after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, in which about 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 people were taken hostage. The attack sparked a war in Gaza, in which more than 41,000 people were killed. Israeli attacks are also continuing in Lebanon and Iran.
Another commander of Hezbollah killed
According to the report of Saudi Al-Arabia outlet, Hezbollah commander Salim Jameel Ayyash was recently killed in an Israeli air strike. Unconfirmed reports on social media claim Ayyash was killed in an attack near the Syrian city of al-Qusair. Ayyash, who had a $10 million bounty on his head from Washington, was a senior member of Hezbollah’s Unit 151 assassination squad, according to the US State Department. In 2020, Ayesh was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a UN-backed tribunal for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a suicide bombing in Beirut in 2005.