Pager Attack Retribution for Failed Hezbollah Hit in Tel Aviv?

According to reports, the pagers were called before the explosion for some period of seconds to increase the chance that whoever received the call would pick it up and be maximally wounded. Shortly before the explosions, there were reports of a special meeting between Mossad Director David Barnea and Netanyahu.

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The news comes only hours after the Shin Bet revealed that Hezbollah recently attempted to assassinate a top former Israeli defense official in Tel Aviv.

The situation is far from clear and developing, but given the juxtaposition in the timing and the last few hysterical hours in Israel about a security situation with Lebanon, did Israel just carry out only its second attack on Hezbollah in Beirut of the nearly year-long war in retaliation for the Lebanese terror group's failed assassination attempt?

Ed Morrissey

I doubt that the IDF would have launched this attack merely as retribution. This is an act of pre-emption that leaves Hezbollah vulnerable to a large-scale offensive, and perhaps the only upside for them is that Israel might wait to see if they'll shut down missile attacks rather than get steamrolled in a full-scale invasion. 

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