Correction: Lebanon-Israel-Exploding Devices story

Hezbollah fighters carry one of the coffins of four fallen comrades who were killed Tuesday after their handheld pagers exploded, during their funeral procession in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. Credit: AP/Bilal Hussein
WASHINGTON — In a story published Dec. 22, 2024, about Israel’s use of exploding pagers in Lebanon, The Associated Press erroneously reported that an unidentified senior Mossad intelligence agent said on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that it took two weeks to convince Hezbollah to switch to a new type of pager. The agent actually said it took two weeks to convince his director at Mossad to sell the new pager.
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