New details reveal how Israel protected Hezbollah pager operation after suspicions em

Key Points:

• Two years after the Hezbollah pager operation, former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant revealed that Israel took preemptive actions including killing a Hezbollah member who suspected the pagers were booby-trapped and destroying equipment meant to test the devices.
• The operation involved detonating thousands of rigged pagers carried by Hezbollah members, causing significant injuries, followed by a larger planned strike using communications devices with greater explosives that mostly exploded in warehouses, limiting their impact.
• Gallant stated that the overarching plan aimed to eliminate Hezbollah’s fighting force through these communications devices, but the main operation was ultimately canceled by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 11, 2023.
• These details were previously censored but are now part of a new film, Paging Hezbollah, set for release in the U.S. next month, featuring Netanyahu and other Israeli officials but not Gallant.
• Netanyahu had earlier disclosed some classified information in April 2025, including that Hezbollah sent three pagers to Iran for inspection, which triggered part of the Israeli operation.