I can well believe it. The Radwan forces Israel killed had plans:

In a statement, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said Aqil, a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces, was killed alongside senior operatives in the group’s operations staff and other Radwan commanders.

Hagari said they “were gathered underground under a residential building in the heart of the Dahiyah neighbourhood [in southern Beirut], hiding among Lebanese civilians, using them as human shields”.

The IDF spokesman added that the individuals killed were “planning Hezbollah’s ‘Conquer the Galilee’ attack plan, in which Hezbollah intended to infiltrate Israeli communities and murder innocent civilians”.

The plan was first reported by the Israeli military in 2018, when the IDF said it was blocking tunnels dug by Hezbollah to penetrate Israeli territory and kidnap and murder civilians.

So they knew that type of strike was possible, from Hezbollah? As early as 2018?

This may be one reason we haven’t heard too much protest from Washington:

In April, Washington said it was searching for Aqil, also known as Tahsin, and offered financial rewards to anyone with “information leading to his identification, location, arrest and/or conviction”.

Did the pager explosion smoke him out, as it were? I heard somewhere that he had been wounded and briefly hospitalized from his pager. Did that lead Israel to learning his whereabouts, and help them track him?

In other news (hat tip: commenter “sdferr”), more terrorists were killed:

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the two terrorists who likely murdered hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, and Almog Sarusi in a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip were killed by Israeli forces.

“A day after the murder of the hostages, forces with the 162nd Division identified two terrorists emerging from a nearby tunnel in the Tel Sultan area, and killed them in an exchange of fire,” Hagari says in a press conference.

“After we investigated the findings from the tunnel and equipment from the terrorists, we found DNA and several items that belonged to the terrorists that we killed,” he says.

Hagari says that the findings reveal that the two terrorists were inside the tunnel where the six hostages were murdered, during the murder.

“We are checking their involvement in the murder,” he adds.

But of course Palestine is being rewarded by the UN:

Despite a raging war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza, and escalating violence between Israeli forces and terrorists in the West Bank, the U.N. General Assembly took the unprecedented step during its September session of seating a representative of the Palestinian Authority among member nations for the very first time. This new right was bestowed on the P.A.’s delegation, even though it is not a full member of the international body, nor does it rule the Gaza Strip, where about 40% of Palestinians live. …

The State of Palestine has held an observer-only status in the United Nations since 1974. In 2012, its status was upgraded from an “observer entity” to a “non-member observer state.” The United Nations adopted a resolution in May 2024 that granted new rights to the State of Palestine, excluding voting. Among the U.N.’s procedural rights that were granted to the Palestinian leadership beginning with this session were:

The right to sit among full member states.
The right to be elected as officers of the General Assembly.
The right to make motions, and submit proposals and amendments.
The right to speak on agenda items beyond issues related to the Middle East.

Next to Iran, the UN is the greatest booster of the Palestinians. The UN may even be equal to or exceed Iran in that regard.