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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted US President Donald Trump a golden pager during their meeting in the White House on Tuesday, his office confirmed yesterday, in an apparent reference to Israel’s attack on Lebanon in September last year which rights groups said could constitute a war crime.
The gift “symbolises the Prime Minister’s decision that led to a turning point in the war and the starting point for breaking the will of the terrorist organisation Hezbollah,” Netanyahu’s office said.
The attack “expresses the power, technological superiority and cunning of Israel against its enemies,” it added.
The golden pager displayed the text, “Press with both hands”, and was given to Trump with a placard saying: “To President Donald J. Trump, our greatest friend and greatest ally. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”
More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah members and medics, were wounded on 17 September when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon. Trump called the attack “a great operation”.
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