Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acknowledged for the first time he green-lighted an operation in September where thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in Lebanon and Syria. “The pager operation and the elimination of (Hezbollah leader Hassan) Nasrallah were carried out despite the opposition of senior officials in the defence establishment and those responsible for them in the political echelon,” Netanyahu said in a cabinet meeting, according to local media reports. On 17 September, thousands of explosions struck the pagers of Hezbollah members, and their walkie-talkies …