The special operation took place despite the resistance of high-ranking defense officials.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a weekly cabinet meeting, for the first time acknowledged his country's involvement in the explosions of pagers and radios belonging to Hezbollah figures that occurred in Lebanon in September of this year. At least 39 people were killed and hundreds were injured.
This was reported by the Israeli publication The Times of Israel.
“The operation using pagers and the elimination of Nasrallah [i.e. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah] was carried out despite the opposition of senior officials in the defense department and those responsible for them in the political echelon,” Netanyahu said.
The publication noted that the Israeli prime minister hinted at the recently dismissed Defense Minister Yoav Gallant due to a “lack of mutual trust.”
Israel has not publicly claimed responsibility for the attack on Hezbollah, which killed at least 39 people on September 17 and 18.
According to Lebanon, about 3,000 others were wounded in the attack. The victims included civilians and members of the terrorist group, and the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon was among the wounded. A week later, a Hezbollah spokesman said the group had lost 1,500 fighters to wounds, many of whom were blinded or had their arms blown off.
Various media outlets subsequently reported that the attack was a highly sophisticated Israeli intelligence operation, years in the making, in which Hezbollah was duped into acquiring compromised devices.
The bombings were followed by a series of Israeli airstrikes that destroyed much of Hezbollah's command structure, including Nasrallah, before a limited ground operation began in southern Lebanon to eliminate the terrorist group's immediate threats to northern border communities. Israel.
Recall that Israeli President Isaac Herzog stated that his country has nothing to do with the incidents with the explosions of pagers and radios among members of the Hezbollah group in Lebanon.
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