Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that before the “exploding pagers operation” was carried out last year, he was skeptical that the tiny amount of explosives in the rigged pagers would be enough to injure Hezbollah terrorists.

Speaking at the JNS conference in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said: “In the third week of September, we learned that Hezbollah had sent three pagers to Iran for scanning. They had this minuscule amount of TNT. When the Mossad guy showed them to me three weeks earlier: ‘I said: ‘Is that really going to do the job?'”

“I took it and threw it on the wood panel in my office and it dented it. So I said: ‘Go ahead.'”

Netanyahu continued by saying that when he heard Hezbollah was inspecting some of the pagers for explosives, a process that would take only a day, he immediately ordered the launch of the operation.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)