Netanyahu gifts Trump controversial item that helped turned tide in war against Hezbollah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Donald Trump an antithetic acquisition during his astir caller travel to Washington, D.C., this week — a gold-plated pager.

The contiguous was a motion to the controversial wide attack believed to person been carried retired by Israel’s Mossad quality bureau against Hezbollah Sept. 17, 2024, successful which thousands of pagers, walkie-talkie-like devices and radios simultaneously exploded crossed Lebanon and Syria astir 3:30 p.m. 

A connection from Netanyahu’s bureau to Fox News Digital said, "The pager symbolizes the premier minister’s determination that led to a turning constituent successful the warfare and marked the opening of Hezbollah’s strategical collapse.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Donald Trump a gold-plated pager during a sojourn to the White House Feb. 6, 2024.  (Israeli Government Press Office)

"This strategical cognition reflects Israel’s strength, technological superiority and tactical ingenuity in confronting its adversaries."

An representation obtained by Fox News Digital showed the pager mounted to a woody plaque with a connection connected the instrumentality that said, "Press with some hands," accompanied by a treble downward arrow sign, the aforesaid connection that reportedly showed moments earlier the devices detonated. 

The plaque besides came with a connection to Trump calling him Israel's "greatest person and ally."

The connection appears to beryllium the archetypal clip Netanyahu’s bureau has publically commented connected the onslaught against the violent web successful the summer. 

Though the attacks were intended to people Hezbollah terrorists, the explosions besides injured, maimed and killed civilians, including astatine slightest 2 children. In total, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported that 32 radical were killed and 3,250 others were injured. 

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A symbolic representation of a young Lebanese miss who was killed successful a deadly pager onslaught is pictured adjacent to flowers placed successful beforehand of the Lebanese embassy successful bluish Tehran, Iran, Sept. 18, 2024.  (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

U.N. Human Rights experts condemned the cognition and said the indiscriminate quality of the attacks amounted to "war crimes."

"These attacks interruption the quality close to life, absent immoderate denotation that the victims posed an imminent lethal menace to anyone other astatine the time," 1 adept told the OHCHR. "Such attacks necessitate prompt, autarkic probe to found the information and alteration accountability for the transgression of murder."

Despite the constricted fig of terrorists killed successful the wide attacks, Israeli officials person championed the cognition arsenic a palmy intelligence stroke to Hezbollah.

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Though Israel was instantly suspected of being progressive successful the reported years-in-the-making operation, Jerusalem had not officially confirmed its relation publically before.

However, by November 2024, Israeli reports revealed comments leaked from a Cabinet gathering successful which Netanyahu was quoted arsenic saying, "The pager cognition and the elimination of [Hezbollah person Hassan] Nasrallah were carried retired contempt the absorption of elder officials successful the defence constitution and those liable for them successful the governmental echelon."

President Donald Trump hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., Feb. 4, 2025.  (Avi Ohayon (GPO)/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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The premier minister’s comments were an evident excavation astatine erstwhile Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who helium fired conscionable weeks anterior to the comments implicit disagreements regarding the warfare effort against Hamas and Hezbollah.

Neither the White House nor the U.N. instantly responded to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.

Yael Rotem-Kuriel contributed to this report.