A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said the pager attack in Lebanon had been approved by Netanyahu. (deposit)
Israel took responsibility after 54 days for the serial explosions that took place in the pager (communication device) of Hezbollah members in Lebanon on September 17. Prime Minister Netanyahu admitted Sunday that he approved the attack on the grounds of Israel’s security.
Netanyahu’s spokesperson Omar Dostri told the AFP news agency: “During the cabinet meeting held on Sunday, Prime Minister Netanyahu confirmed that he had ordered the pager attack in Lebanon. However, Omar did not give detailed information about this attack.
According to the Times of Israel, Netanyahu said the defense agency and senior officials were against the pager attack and the operation to kill Nasrallah, then the leader of Hezbollah. Despite opposition, I gave direct orders for the attack.
Around 40 people linked to Hezbollah were killed in pager explosions on September 17 and in a walkie-talkie attack on September 18. More than three thousand people were also injured.
On September 27, after giving a speech at the UN, Netanyahu gave authorization to attack Hezbollah’s headquarters in Lebanon with an 80-ton bomb from his hotel room. Twenty hours later, Hezbollah confirmed Nasrallah’s death.
2 photos of a pager attack…
On September 17, pagers exploded simultaneously in several locations across Lebanon.
One person was injured and fell on the road when the pager kept in his pants pocket exploded. Who was then taken to hospital.
Hezbollah gave its members pagers
The use of pagers was fashionable before mobile phones. Later, its use gradually declined. Although it is still used in Lebanon.
A pager is a wireless device used to send and receive messages. It usually comes with a small screen and limited keyboard. With its help, messages or alerts can be received quickly.
According to reports, the pagers that caused the explosion were recently given to its members by Hezbollah for use. After the start of the war in Gaza, Hezbollah banned its members from using cell phones. This advice was given to avoid any possible attack from Israel.
In July, Hassan Nasrallah asked people to stop using mobile devices and CCTV cameras because he feared the Israeli agency would hack them.
Israel knew Nasrallah’s location for months
According to the New York Times, Israeli leaders had known Nasrallah’s location for several months. They had planned to attack him a week in advance. In fact, Israeli officials feared that Nasrallah would move to another location within a few days.
In such a situation, they had very little time to attack him. After that, on September 27, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after giving a speech at the UN, gave permission to attack Hezbollah headquarters from his hotel room.
What is Hezbollah? The word Hezbollah means Party of God. This organization describes itself as a Shiite Islamic political, military and social organization. Hezbollah is a powerful group in Lebanon. America and many countries have declared it a terrorist organization.
It was built with the help of Iran during Israel’s occupation of Lebanon in the early 1980s. It gradually began to take root during the return of Islam to Lebanon in the 1960s-1970s.
Thus, Hamas is a Sunni Palestinian organization, while Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shiite party supported by Iran, but the two organizations remain united on the issue of Israel. Between 2020 and 2023, both factions opposed the UAE-Bahrain deal with Israel.
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Hezbollah had declared: “If there is a war, we will not leave any corner of Israel, we will attack from all directions – land, air, water.
Hassan Nasrallah, then head of the Lebanese organization Hezbollah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike. He had warned Israel before this attack. Nasrallah had said that if there was a war with Israel, no place there would be left safe. …