Netanyahu Confirms He Okayed Pager Attacks That Killed Nearly 40 In Lebanon

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted that he had “okayed” the pager attacks in Lebanon, which had killed nearly 40 and wounded 3,000 Iran-backed Hezbollah members in September.

“Netanyahu confirmed Sunday that he greenlighted the pager operation in Lebanon,” his spokesperson Omer Dostri told news agency AFP.

On September 17, thousands of pagers exploded in Hezbollah strongholds two days in a row – which Iran and Hezbollah blamed on Israel. The pagers were used by Hezbollah members as a low-tech means of communication to evade Israeli location-tracking. 

The blasts came just hours after Israel announced it was broadening the aims of the war sparked by Hamas’ October 7 attacks to include its fight against the group’s ally Hezbollah along the country’s border with Lebanon.

Earlier this week, Lebanon had filed a complaint with the United Nations Labour Agency over the deadly attack, calling it an “egregious war against humanity”.