Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu confirmed for the first time on Sunday that Israel carried out the Sept. 17-18 pager attacks in Lebanon, which wounded thousands of Hezbollah terrorists.
“There were senior officials in the defense establishment and the political echelon in charge of them who opposed the pager operation, as well as [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah’s elimination,” Netanyahu told fellow ministers at the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Yerushalayim.
“When I wanted to eliminate Nasrallah, [have the IDF] enter [Gaza’s Hamas stronghold] Rafah and other things, there were those who opposed it in the Cabinet,” the prime minister added.
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