Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem acknowledged in an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV that the group had seriously underestimated Israeli surveillance capabilities prior to the pager bombings. He revealed that Israeli espionage had deeply infiltrated Hezbollah's operations, including its supply chain, and that the group was unaware of the full extent of Israeli monitoring. Investigations following the incident exposed significant flaws in Hezbollah's logistics processes that had persisted for over a year. Qassem also disclosed that a shipment of 1,500 booby-trapped pagers was intercepted; Hezbollah requested Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati to ask Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to confiscate and destroy the devices. Israeli aerial surveillance of Hezbollah has likely been ongoing since the end of the Second Lebanon War.