Netanyahu gifts golden pager to Trump during White House meeting

Netanyahu gifts golden pager to Trump during White House meeting

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a golden pager as a gift to US President Donald Trump, in an apparent reference to the clandestine operation in September last year targetting the Hezbollah militant group, media reports said on Friday.

After receiving the golden pager from Netanyahu during their meeting at the White House on Tuesday, Trump called it a “great operation.”

On September 17, 2024, thousands of explosions struck Hezbollah members, targeting their pagers and then walkie-talkies a day later, CNN said quoting the Lebanese health authorities, and added that the blasts killed at least 37 people, including some children, and injured nearly 3,000, many of them civilian bystanders.