One year after the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, initiated the legendary pager strike against the rank and file of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Iranian proxy terrorist group is still reeling from the attack and subsequent devastating blows delivered by the Israeli military and air force.
On Tuesday afternoon, at about 3:30 p.m. Beirut Time, hundreds of pagers across Lebanon began beeping, alerting Hezbollah terrorists to a message from their leadership. Many terrorists rushed to look at their pagers; others still had them in their pants pockets or clipped to their waist belts, when explosives concealed inside the batteries of their devices went off.
Mossad’s flawlessly executed operation is one of the most precise anti-terror strikes in the history of modern warfare. But the Israeli intelligence agency wasn’t done with Hezbollah, the world’s most well-armed and financed terror group. Almost exactly 24 hours after the pager strike, hundreds of walkie-talkies began blowing up on Hezbollah terrorists.
Later accounts reveal that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah personally witnessed his pager-carrying associates blowing up inside a Beirut bunker. Nasrallah cried and fell into depression after seeing the devastating impact of the strike, his family members later confessed.
“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.
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.
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