One Year Ago Today: Israel Unleashed Pager Strike, Sounding The Death Knell For Hezbollah

“Former Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah was depressed by the success of Mossad’s pager operation targeting Hezbollah terrorists,” the Jerusalem Post reported March 25, 2025, quoting the terror chief’s children. “His son said Nasrallah was noticeably no longer the same man, and his daughter revealed that he cried after the beeper attack.”

Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, for obvious reasons, was also carrying a pager otherwise issued to Hezbollah terrorists. He too suffered injuries from the blast.

Hassan Nasrallah’s Son Jawad and Daughter Zaynab: During His Final Days, Our Father Was Depressed – the Pager Attack Changed Him; He Became Sad and Spiritless pic.twitter.com/SEhVlaWhDu

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While Hezbollah initially downplayed the impact of the strike, it became clear that Mossad had succeeded in taking thousands of combat-ready terrorists from ‘active duty.’

“In total, 42 were killed and almost 3,500 wounded by the blasts, according to Lebanon’s ministry of health,” The Guardian reported September 20, 2025.

In the following weeks and months, details of Israel’s meticulously planned and masterfully executed operation began to emerge.

Reuters revealed that Mossad had “planted a small amount of explosives inside 5,000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before” the strike.

It took years of planning to infiltrate Hezbollah’s supply chain. A Mossad-run Hungarian shell company convinced the terrorist group to buy their Taiwan-made pagers. Ironically branded ‘Golden Apollo,’ after the patron-god of the city of Troy, Hezbollah literally paid to import these ‘Trojan Horses.’ If that wasn’t ironic enough, replacing cell phones with pagers was Nasrallah’s own idea to ‘fly under the radar’ with an antiquated solution.

The setback turned into a total disaster for the Iranian proxy terrorist group, as Israeli airstrikes took out almost the entire Hezbollah leadership in the following weeks. 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. Israel, in October 2024, launched a month-long ground offensive to flush out Hezbollah from southern Lebanon.

In early December 2024, the Iran-backed Assad regime collapsed unexpectedly. Assad’s Syria was a haven for Hezbollah terrorist fighters and served as a land corridor for Iran to supply weapons to Lebanon. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) created a buffer zone in Syria’s Golan Heights after Assad’s fall, flanking Hezbollah from the east.

Hezbollah’s terror operations have been in disarray following the pager strike. In the past year, around ten thousand Hezbollah terrorists have reportedly been killed, and several thousand made a timely career switch.

In July 2025, the Israel Hayom newspaper reported that “nearly 10,000 Hezbollah terrorists have been completely decommissioned since the war with Israel,” based on Arab media sources.