WASHINGTON — President Trump revealed in an interview published Thursday that he had veto power over operations Israel carried out against Islamic terror groups following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

“All of those attacks were done in auspices with, actually, with me directly. You know, with Israel doing the attacks, with the pagers and all that stuff,” Trump told Time magazine , referring to the decimation of Hezbollah in a spectacular September 2024 Israeli intelligence operation involving exploding beepers .

“Look they’ve been, Israel’s been very respectful of this country,” Trump went on. “And they let me know everything. And sometimes I’d say no, and they’d be respectful of that.” 3

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The Hezbollah attack, which effectively defanged the Lebanon-based terror organization

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