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Israel notified US ahead of Tuesday’s Lebanon operation but gave no details of what was planned, sources say
CNN — Israeli officials notified the US that the country was going to carry out an
operation in Lebanon on Tuesday but did not give any details about what they were planning, according to three sources familiar with the matter, including in a call between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant early Tuesday morning.
The fact no details about the operation were given meant US officials were in the dark until reports of hundreds of exploding pagers emerged a short time later, the sources said.
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Gallant and Austin spoke a second time later Tuesday after it became clear thousands of Hezbollah members were wounded by exploding pagers, but officials declined to go into what was discussed.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday that “the US was not involved” and was “
not aware of this incident that hundreds of pagers … were going to explode in Lebanon ahead of time.”
Jean-Pierre’s wording was precise in that the US was not told about specifically about exploding pagers in advance. The notification from Israel was far more generic and vague, leaving US officials with questions about what the operation could be, the sources said.
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