Netanyahu and Gallant spar over Hezbollah pager operation

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant are publicly sparring on the timing of the pager operation that decimated Hezbollah.

The spat began on Thursday when Gallant said in an interview with Israeli Channel 12 that the government did not green-light the operation in the days after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack, and he called that decision “the State of Israel’s greatest missed opportunity, security-wise, since its founding.”