Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Donald Trump a rare gift during his recent trip to Washington, D.C. this week.
Now he nodded to the controversial mass attack that was believed to have been carried out by Israeli Mossad Intelligence Agency on September 17, 2024. 3:30pm
A statement from Netanyahu’s office to Fox News Digital stated, “The pager symbolized the Prime Minister’s decision, leading to a turning point in the war and marked the beginning of Hezbollah’s strategic collapse.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Donald Trump a gold plated monkey during his visit to the White House on February 6, 2024. (Israel government news office)
“This strategic operation reflects Israel’s strength, technical advantage and tactical ingenuity when facing the enemy.”
Images taken by Fox News Digital showed a pager attached to a wooden plaque with the message on a device with the message “push with both hands.” .
The plaque came with a message to Trump, known as Israel’s “great friends and allies.”
The statement appears to be the first time Netanyahu’s office has publicly commented on a strike against the terrorist network over the summer.
The attack was intended to target Hezbollah terrorists, but the explosion was injured and injured and killed civilians, including at least two children. In total, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported 32 people have been killed and 3,250 people have been injured.
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On September 18, 2024, next to a flower placed in front of the Lebanese embassy in northern Tehran, Iran, there is a symbolic portrait of a young Lebanese girl killed in a fatal pager attack. Masu. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
UN human rights experts condemned the operation, saying the indiscriminate nature of the attack amounted to “war crimes.”
“These attacks violate human rights because they have no indication that the victims had pose an imminent, deadly threat to others at the time,” an expert told OHCHR. “Attacks like this require prompt and independent investigations to establish the truth and enable accountability for murderous crimes.”
Though the number of terrorists killed in widespread attacks is limited, Israeli officials have defended the operation for a successful psychological blow to Hezbollah.
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Israel was suspected of being involved in the reported annual operation, but Jerusalem had not officially confirmed its role.
However, by November 2024, Israeli reports that Netanyahu “would say “Operation Poeja and the elimination of Nasrara (Hezbollah leader Hassan) despite opposition from senior officials at defense facilities, Nasrara was eliminated. He revealed a comment leaked from the Cabinet meeting, cited as having been made, and those responsible for the political class.
President Donald Trump hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 4, 2025 at the White House in Washington, DC. (AVI OHAYON (GPO)/HANDOUT/ANADOLU Getty Images)
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The Prime Minister’s comments were the obvious excavations of former defense minister Joa Garant, who fired fire a few weeks before comments on disagreement over Hamas and Hezbollah’s efforts.
Neither the White House nor the UN responded immediately to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Yael Rotem-Kuriel contributed to this report.
