Former defense minister Yoav Gallant disputes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that attacking Hezbollah in October 2023 would have been a mistake. Gallant asserts that the pager attack plan was ready to go by October 2023 and that thousands of pagers were in the hands of terrorists. He also argues that the damage caused by the pager blasts would have been secondary to the walkie-talkie devices, which were rigged with explosives.