Israel put explosives in thousands of pagers Hezbollah imported, reports says . . . then exploded all of them at once with a message!
by William Upton, The National Pulse.com, Septemer 17, 2024
Thousands of Hezbollah militants appear to have been wounded, and at least eight have been killed after mobile pager devices exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday. Government officials claim up to 2,700 people were injured in the blasts. While the cause of the explosions is not yet known, Lebanese state media confirms a significant number of Hezbollah members were among the injured, suggesting the terrorist group was the intended target.
The blasts occurred in several suburbs of Beirut, considered to be Hezbollah strongholds, and lasted for about an hour. In a post on its Telegram channel, the Islamist terror group acknowledged that its members were affected by the exploding pagers. Among the wounded is Iran‘s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, who suffered minor injuries when a pager near him detonated.
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State media claims the pager devices were hacked, causing their batteries to overheat and explode. A Hezbollah official, speaking anonymously, has told several media outlets that the pagers were the latest model being used by the terrorist group—implying the explosions were likely the result of a cyber attack.
In recent years, Hezbollah has foregone the use of more contemporary smartphones—instead opting to use pagers and older models of mobile phones over fears of being tracked by the Israeli military. The latest incident, however, seems to indicate the terrorist group’s more outdated technology is still vulnerable to attack.
Israel and Hezbollah have engaged in repeated exchanges of fire along the Lebanese border since the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks against the Jewish state. The Israeli military says it will not be issuing any comment on the pager explosions.
It is alleged that Israel planted explosives inside thousands of pagers imported by Hezbollah months before Tuesday’s unprecedented attack in Lebanon, according to sources cited by Reuters and US media.
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The operation, which the Lebanese group blamed on Israel’s spy agency the Mossad, marked a major security breach. Thousands of pagers detonated across Lebanon and also in Syria, killing nine people and wounding almost 3,000 others, including the group’s fighters and Iran’s envoy to Beirut. Lebanon’s health minister, Firass Abiad, said a young girl was among the dead, and that more than 200 people had critical injuries.
Hezbollah accused Israel of being behind the blasts. It said it was carrying out a “security and scientific investigation” into the causes of the blasts and Israel would receive “its fair punishment”. The Lebanese information minister, Ziad Makary, condemned the attack as an “Israeli aggression”.
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