The Jerusalem Post reached out to four Lebanese citizens in the homeland and diaspora to hear their perspectives on the pager explosions.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called Israel's Northern Command leader "foolish" and addressed the displaced Israelis in the North.
The report explained that while the company did produce regular pagers for other clients, those manufactured for Hezbollah were “produced separately, they contained batteries laced with explosive.”
Nasrallah is relying on the 'Nahariya test' barely receiving a passing grade.
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If a major military attack is severely depleted due to the enemy striking first, one would be far-stretched to state that it went “as planned.”
Nasrallah "couldn't say 'we failed'. In such a speech, he is not speaking to Israel," Yedioth Ahronoth Arab affairs correspondent Avi Issacharoff said.
The international community called for restraint, and the United States said it backed Israel’s right to self-defense.
The former official estimated that in his upcoming speech, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah will "console the people."
"We can fly anywhere at any time and perform sonic booms daily or conduct other operations," a senior IDF official said.