In 2021, the Associated Press denied reports that its staff members in Gaza had shared an office building with Hamas. Maybe it was true, or maybe not. It’s the AP’s word against Israeli intelligence. After this week, however, one cannot help but revisit the question.

AP published a report this week titled, “Survivors of Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah struggle to recover,” raising all the obvious questions regarding its editorial choices.

For context: Israel’s army and intelligence services carried out a complex operation last year targeting Hezbollah terrorists and their officers — booby-trapping and detonating the pager devices they rely on for supposedly secure and private communications. The devices were designed to wound rather than kill, in order to create maximum disruption among Hezbollah's leadership at a moment when it was already firing rocket barrages into Israel and a full-blown war seemed imminent.

The pager operation was hugely successful, wounding 3,000 and killing a dozen, with very little collateral damage. It dispersed Hezbollah’s middle management and crippled its leadership. Between the pagers, a similarly successful action involving walkie-talkies and a series of airstrikes, there is now a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel.

One might think Israel would be praised for designing such a precisely targeted operation, which minimized as much as........

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