Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the president Donald Trump An unusual gift during his last trip to Washington, DC, this week – a gold -plated remote retarder.
The present was a nod to Controversial mass attack It would have been produced by the agency Israel of Mossad Intelligence against Hezbollah on September 17, 2024, in which thousands of viewers, devices and radios of the Walkie-Talkie type exploded simultaneously through Lebanon and Syria around 3.30 p.m.
A statement from the Netanyahu office at Fox News Digital said: “The tele -revenient symbolizes the decision of the Prime Minister who led to a turning point in the war and marked the start of the strategic collapse of Hezbollah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Donald Trump a gold plated pager during a white house visit on February 6, 2024. (Israeli government’s press office)
“This strategic operation reflects the force of Israel, technological superiority and tactical ingenuity in confront his opponents. “”
An image obtained by Fox News Digital showed the teleaverter mounted on a wooden plate with a message on the device that said: “Press with both hands”, accompanied by a signs of double arrow, the same message that would have shown moments Before the devices explode.
The plaque also came with a message to Trump calling him the “greatest friend and ally” of Israel.
The declaration seems to be the first time Netanyahu’s office has commented publicly On strike against the terrorist network in summer.
Although the attacks are intended to target Hezbollah terrorists, the explosions also injured, mutilated and killed civilians, including at least two children. In total, the United Nations Office of the High Human Rights Commissioner (OHCH) reported that 32 people had been killed and 3,250 others were injured.
A symbolic portrait of a young Lebanese woman who was killed in a deadly tele -revenient attack is represented next to the flowers placed in front of the Lebanese embassy in the north of Tehran, Iran, September 18, 2024. (Morteza Nikoubazl / Nurphoto via Getty Images)
The United Nations human rights experts condemned the operation and said that the blind nature of attacks was equivalent to “war crimes”.
“These attacks violate the human right to life, in the absence of any indication that the victims constituted an imminent deadly threat to someone else at the time”, an expert said to the ohchr. “Such attacks require a rapid independent investigation to establish the truth and allow responsibility for the murder crime.”
Despite the limited number of terrorists killed during the widespread attacks, Israeli officials defended the operation as a successful psychological blow in Hezbollah.
Although Israel was immediately suspected of being involved in the Operation of the manufacturing years reportedJerusalem had not officially confirmed his role before.
However, in November 2024, Israeli reports revealed comments disclosed during a cabinet meeting during which Netanyahu would have declared: “The remote retarder and the elimination of [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah was made despite the opposition of senior officials in the establishment of defense and those responsible for them in the political level. “”
President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2025. (Avi Ohayon (GPO) / Handout / Anadolu via Getty Images)
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The Prime Minister’s comments were an apparent excavation to the former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, which he dismissed a few weeks before the comments on the disagreements concerning the war effort against Hamas and Hezbollah.
Neither the White House nor the UN immediately responded to requests for comments from Fox News Digital.
Yael Rotem-Kuriel contributed to this report.
