Documentary uncovers Israel's covert campaign to hide Hezbollah pager sabotage

"Paging Hezbollah," set for a U.S. release on October 30, details Israel's clandestine operation that exploded thousands of pagers supplied to Hezbollah leaders in September 2024. As the documentary shows, Israeli security services feared the plan was being compromised and, in early August, eliminated a Hezbollah operative who was about to scrutinize the devices, disguising the killing as a strike on a different individual.

A second threat emerged when Iran sent advanced mirror machines to Lebanon to verify the pagers; the Israeli Air Force intercepted and destroyed the equipment, again masking the true motive. The film features commentary from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ex-Mossad director David Barnea, and former Northern Command commander Uri Gordin, highlighting sophisticated engineering and deep penetration of Hezbollah’s supply chain that allowed Israel to breach the group’s encrypted communications. These revelations portray a multi-layered effort to conceal the operation from both Hezbollah and the broader intelligence community.