Hezbollah’s terror chief Hassan Nasrallah cried and fell into ‘serious’ depression after Mossad flawlessly executed the pager blasts last September, the family of the slain terrorist revealed in an interview with the Hezbollah-controlled Al-Manar TV.
“Former Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah was depressed by the success of Mossad’s pager operation targeting Hezbollah terrorists,” the Jerusalem Post reported Sunday, quoting Nasrallah’s children.
Hezbollah chief, who liked playing the tough guy by issuing angry televised threats to Israel, was shaken to the core by the devastatingly precise Mossad operation that he was mentally “no longer with us,” one of his sons confessed.
On September 17, 2024, pagers belonging to Hezbollah terror operatives across Lebanon began to explode, injuring 3000, and killing 37 terrorists, Lebanese authorities acknowledged. The following day, hundreds of Hezbollah-owned walkie-talkies blew up, injuring or killing several more.
Nasrallah, while coming out unscathed from the pager blasts, personally witnessed the deadly accuracy of the Israeli operation. In December, Mossad agents told 60 Minutes that Nasrallah saw his bodyguards die from exploding pagers inside the bunker.
The Times of Israel reported:
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah became depressed and was emotionally changed by Israel’s exploding pager attack on his operatives as well as by strikes that decimated the group’s leadership, his family told Lebanese media.His son said Nasrallah was noticeably no longer the same man, and his daughter revealed that he cried after the beeper attack.Nasrallah’s son, daughter, and three grandchildren spoke to Al-Manar television for interviews that were broadcast on Friday.Nasrallah’s daughter Zeinab Nasrallah told Al-Manar that she called her mother the day after the beeper explosions to find out how her father had reacted.“She told me that he cried,” Zeinab Nasrallah said, according to an English translation of her comments on the site.Son Mohammed Jawad Nasrallah said that his father sank into a serious depression after a July airstrike killed Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in his Beirut apartment, and then the beeper attacks.Everyone who met him said “he is no longer with us,” Jawad Nasrallah recalled.In addition, Israel’s relentless bombing campaign, once the conflict escalated into open war, had a profound effect on the Hezbollah leader, and directly impacted the terror group’s morale, Nasrallah said.
The setback turned into a total disaster for the Iranian proxy terrorist group, as targeted Israeli airstrikes took out almost the entire Hezbollah leadership in following days. Ten days after the pager blasts, Nasrallah himself was eliminated in an Israeli airstrike on a massive Hezbollah bunker complex in southern Beirut.
Hezbollah’s misfortune didn’t end there. In early December 2024, Iran-backed Assad regime collapsed unexpectedly. Assad’s Syria was a safe haven for Hezbollah terrorist fighters and served as a land corridor for Iran to supply weapons to Lebanon. If that wasn’t enough to strangle the terrorist group, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) created a buffer zone in Syria’s Golan Heights after Assad’s fall, flanking Hezbollah from the east.
Hamas made several attempts to attack Israeli troops in Gaza after it rejected a ceasefire proposal by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Israeli fighter jets on Sunday struck armed terrorists moving towards IDF positions in Gaza. “Earlier today (Sunday), an IAF aircraft struck two suspects that were identified near IDF troops and posed a threat to them in southern Gaza. Hits were identified,” the Israeli military said in a statement Sunday evening.
The IDF also targeted a terrorist boat off the coast of southern Gaza and Egypt, a major terrorist supply route after Israel sealed the Philadelphi corridor along Gaza’s border with Egypt. “Earlier today (Monday), a suspicious motorized vessel off the coast of northern Khan Yunis, which was violating security restrictions and posing a threat, was struck by the IDF,” the military disclosed.
The Israel military undertook painstaking measures to avert civilian casualties while responding to Hamas terror attacks. “Prior to the strike, warning shots were fired to distance suspects from the area,” the IDF assured.
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