Netanyahu admitted that Israel carried out an operation to blow up the pagers of Hezbollah fighters.

The pager explosions followed sustained rocket attacks on Israel by Hezbollah for nearly a year. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that his country was behind the Hezbollah bombings.

He expressed this on Sunday, November 10, at the weekly cabinet meeting. Netanyahu said the beeper operation and the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah were carried out despite opposition from defense officials and political decision-makers.

Journalists noted that Netanyahu was referring to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who was recently dismissed. The pager explosions came after nearly a year of continuous rocket attacks by Hezbollah, which began the day after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.