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BENJAMIN Netanyahu gave Donald Trump a bizarre aureate bleeper arsenic helium became the archetypal overseas person to sojourn the caller President.
The Israeli Prime Minster handed implicit the gleaming acquisition - arsenic good arsenic a regular pager - successful solemnisation of his deadly pager attack connected Iran successful September, Israeli media reported.
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Trump thanked Netanyahu for the antithetic offering and congratulated him connected the "grand" operation.
After the acquisition had changed hands the US President besides acceptable retired a sweeping imaginativeness for transforming the Gaza strip into the "Riviera of the Middle East".
He said America would instrumentality power of the country and that Palestinians would beryllium resettled successful neighbouring countries.
Israel booby-trapped Hezbollah's proviso of handheld pagers and walkie-talkies which exploded crossed Iran successful September, sidesplitting dozens - including 2 young girls.
Thousands much were injured successful the coordinated blasts including Hezbollah members, civilians and Iran's ambassador to Lebanon.
Hezbollah said the devices had each belonged to its employees crossed "various units and institutions" - with Israeli quality agents aboriginal revealing however they managed it.
Israel and Hezbollah had been pelting each different with missiles implicit the Lebanese borderline regular since Hamas's October 7 attack.
Hours earlier the pager explosion, Israel made it an authoritative warfare purpose to halt Hezbollah's attacks connected the northbound of the state truthful displaced residents could instrumentality home.
A 2nd question of explosions deed the pursuing day, this clip from rigged walkie-talkies.
In the days aft the 2 attacks, the IDF launched a crushed penetration into Lebanon.
Watch infinitesimal masked Mossad spies uncover however Israel crushed Hezbollah with the property of a fastener successful unprecedented interview
Weeks later, Israel revealed it had been forced to motorboat the deadly onslaught early implicit fears the crippled had been discovered by Hezbollah.
Israel had intended to stroke up the pagers if all-out warfare ever broke out, but had to leap the weapon erstwhile Hezbollah operatives began raising suspicions that could person foiled the plot.
Two erstwhile Israeli quality agents aboriginal told CBS News that Hezbollah had been duped into buying thousands of the rigged devices without realising they had been made successful Israel.
Its members carried astir the bombs for 10 years without ever suspecting the trap.
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The agents revealed that a fake institution manufactures the devices with explosives concealed successful the batteries.
An cause identified arsenic Michael said: "We person an unthinkable array of possibilities of creating overseas companies that person nary mode of being traced backmost to Israel.
"Shell companies implicit ammunition companies to impact the proviso concatenation to our favour."
"We make a unreal world. We are a planetary accumulation company. We constitute the screenplay, we're the directors, we're the producers, we're the main actors, and the satellite is our stage."
Lebanon and planetary partners heavy criticised the attack.
Volker Turk, the UN's human rights chief, said the attacks had "appalled" him.
He added that they "violate[d] planetary quality rights law and, arsenic applicable, planetary humanitarian law".
Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire connected November 26.
How did Israel pull-off the pager attack?
ISRAEL pulled-off an elaborate program to works booby-trapped physics devices wrong Iran, which could beryllium detonated astatine will.
They did this by tricking Hezbollah into buying thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies that had successful information been made successful Israel and tampered with.
Mossad, Israel's quality agency, said it recovered retired that Hezbollah was buying its pagers from a Taiwanese institution called Gold Apollo.
The spies past acceptable up a fake institution to manufacture their ain pagers rigged with explosives, implicit with the Gold Apollo logo, without the existent institution realising.
An ex-Israeli cause called Gabriel said the bureau duped Hezbollah into buying the pagers, making advertizing films and brochures, and sharing them connected the internet.
Mossad claimed it lone installed capable explosives to wounded lone the idiosyncratic carrying the device.
Gabriel told CBS: "We trial everything triple, double, aggregate times successful bid to marque definite determination is minimum damage."
Mossad installed an urgent-sounding ringtone that would marque Hezbollah operatives cheque their pagers.
Moments aft the ringtone sounded, the explosives were detonated.
Gabriel said: "When they are buying from us, they person zero hint that they are buying from the Mossad," helium said. "We marque similar [movie] Truman Show, everything is controlled by america down the scene."
Hezbollah bought astir 5,000 of the booby-trapped pagers by September 2024, according to CBS.
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