PM Netanyahu Reveals Pager Attacks And Murder Of Secretary General Hezbollah Nasrallah Against Senior Israeli Officials

PM Netanyahu visited Israel's northern border. (Source: Mayan Toaf/GPO)

JAKARTA - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time admitted that Israel was behind the pager attack, walkie-talkie and the assassination of Secretary-General Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah.

That was said by PM Netanyahu at Sunday's cabinet meeting, which also revealed opposition to the killing of Nasrallah, according to a quote leaked to Hebrew media.

"Nasrallah's Hezbollah officers and assassinations were carried out despite opposition from senior officials at defense agencies and those responsible for the attack on political echelons," PM Netanyahu said in a report. November 11th.

Ahead of the explosion, Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the focus of Israeli military activities would shift to the north front line.

It is known that thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies containing explosives were detonated against their owners in Hezbollah throughout Lebanon and parts of Syria on September 16 and 17.

The pager explosion came after nearly a year of relentless rocket and drone attacks against Israel by the militant group Hezbollah, which began a day after the Hamas-Israeli conflict broke out in Gaza, causing the evacuation of some 60,000 residents from northern Israeli cities on the border with Lebanon.

Israel has not publicly stated responsibility for the attack targeting Hezbollah which caused pagers and walkie-talkies to explode in two waves, killing at least 39 people.

Lebanon said nearly 3,000 others were injured in the attack. The number of victims did not differentiate between civilians and members of the terror group. Among the injured was Tehran's Ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani.

A Hezbollah official told Reuters a week later the attack paralyzed 1,500 Hezbollah militants from their injuries, with many being blind or breaking their hands.

Following the incident, various media reported that the attack was a very sophisticated Israeli intelligence operation that had been planned for years, in which Hezbollah was tricked into buying compromised devices.

The explosion was followed by a series of Israeli airstrikes that crippled most of Hezbollah's command structures, including Nasrallah, and ongoing limited ground operations in southern Lebanon to eliminate the direct threat posed by the terror group against Israel's northern border community.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Sunday that the death toll from the Israeli attack since October 8 last year had reached 3,136, while 13,979 others were injured, quoted from IRNA.

Nearly two-thirds of the victims in Lebanon were caused by increasingly intensive Israeli air aggression that has been taking place since September 23 this year.