Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted for the first time that Israel was responsible for a pager attack on Hezbollah hideouts in Lebanon last September. This attack killed nearly 40 Hezbollah members and injured more than 3,000 others. 

"Netanyahu confirmed Sunday that he greenlighted the pager operation in Lebanon," Netanyahu's spokesperson, Omer Dostri, told AFP. Netanyahu acknowledged in a cabinet meeting on Sunday, November 10, that Israeli forces carried out a precision strike in Beirut, killing Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, on his direct orders. 

The Times of Israel quoted Netanyahu as saying, "The pager operation and the elimination of (Hassan) Nasrallah were carried out despite the opposition of senior officials in the defence establishment and those responsible in the political echelon." Thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terror group, exploded between September 17 and 18, killing approximately 40 people and injuring over 3,000 others.

Hezbollah members used basic pagers without GPS, microphones, or cameras to avoid Israeli surveillance. However, during an Israeli operation, these pagers exploded throughout Lebanon within 30 minutes. Lebanon filed a complaint with the United Nations labour agency earlier this week over the deadly attacks, accusing Israel of waging an "egregious war against humanity, against technology, and work."

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed that Iran used its hypersonic Fattah missiles in an attack on Israel, with more than 400 missiles hitting their intended targets. Israel, on the other hand, denied Iran's claims, claiming that the majority of missiles were intercepted "by Israel and a defensive coalition led by the US". 

The Middle East has been experiencing tumultuous security conditions for more than a year, following Hamas' unprecedented attack on Israel, which killed approximately 1,200 people and kidnapped over 200 others. The attack sparked a war in Gaza, which has killed over 41,000 people. Iran's proxies -- Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and other militias in Iraq and Syria -- have also increased their attacks on Israel, raising fears of a regional war.