{"id":108855,"date":"2025-02-07T00:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/netanyahu-gifts-trump-golden-pager-in-nod-to-lebanon-explosions\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T00:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:04:47","slug":"netanyahu-gifts-trump-golden-pager-in-nod-to-lebanon-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/netanyahu-gifts-trump-golden-pager-in-nod-to-lebanon-explosions\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu gifts Trump golden pager in nod to Lebanon explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(WASHINGTON) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted President Donald Trump a golden pager during their meeting at the White House this week, Netanyahu’s office said.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu’s office released a photo of the gift Thursday, which references Israel’s deadly explosive attacks in Lebanon and Syria in September that killed dozens of people and injured thousands more.<\/p>\n

A plaque presented with the golden pager praised Trump as “our greatest friend and greatest ally.”<\/p>\n

Netanyahu also gifted Trump a regular pager during the visit.<\/p>\n

After receiving the gift, Trump replied, “that was a great operation,” an Israeli official told ABC News about the gift.<\/p>\n

Amid the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, thousands of pagers exploded simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n

The covert Israeli military operation killed at least 37 people in Lebanon, including at least 12 civilians, and wounded over 2,900 people, according to Lebanese authorities.<\/p>\n

The civilian deaths included an 8-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy, according to Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad.<\/p>\n

At least 14 were also injured in targeted attacks on Hezbollah members in Syria, according to the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n

“We hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression, which also targeted civilians and led to the deaths of a number of martyrs and the injury of a large number with various wounds,” Hezbollah said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon at the time called the operation an “extremely concerning escalation in what is an already unacceptably volatile context,” in a statement released by the U.N. Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary General.<\/p>\n

In a release about the gift, Netanyahu’s office said the golden pager “symbolizes the Prime Minister\u2019s decision that led to a turnaround in the war and the starting point for breaking the spirit” of Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

“This strategic operation expresses the power, technological superiority and cunning of the State of Israel against its enemies,” the statement added.<\/p>\n

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