In a revealing statement, Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem disclosed new details about a Mossad operation dubbed the "pager attack," which he said exposed a significant security failure within the terror group's ranks.
According to Qassem, the attack compromised Hezbollah’s internal communications system, exposing what they believed to be a secure procurement network. He admitted that operatives had been sourcing equipment through a convoluted, multi-country system designed to obscure the end user. However, Israeli intelligence managed to track the equipment back to its parent company, which had been under surveillance, rendering the entire network vulnerable.
Qassem confirmed that the pagers—central to the breach—were acquired within the past 12 to 18 months. “The whole internal communication was open to Israel,” he said, describing it as one of the most serious breaches Hezbollah discovered during the war.
In the wake of the attack, Hezbollah reportedly formed a “central investigation committee” to probe organizational failures, including the pager incident and rumored Israeli assassination attempts against senior figures such as Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safi al-Din.