Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he approved a September attack on Hezbollah communications devices that exploded in Lebanon — the first time Israel admitted involvement, * Al Jazeera* reports.
“Netanyahu confirmed Sunday that he greenlighted the pager operation in Lebanon,” his spokesman Omer Dostri said of the attacks that killed nearly 40 people and wounded nearly 3,000.
A week after the pager attacks, Israel announced a ground operation in southern Lebanon and began heavy air strikes on areas in Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Bekaa Valley, Hezbollah strongholds.