On September 17, pagers belonging to Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon and Syria, killing nine people and injuring thousands.
The pagers might contain a small explosive charge, possibly as tiny as a pencil eraser, which must have been implanted before the pagers were delivered.On September 17, pagers belonging to hundreds of Hezbollah members exploded simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people and injuring thousands, according to officials.
A Hezbollah official told the AP that the pagers were new but refused to disclose how long they had been in use. Experts believe the pager explosions were part of a sophisticated, deliberate operation, likely involving the tampering of the supply chain to plant explosives in the devices before they were shipped to Lebanon.
“It seems highly probable that these encrypted pagers were modified before Hezbollah even bought them, pointing to a very successful Mossad operation,” he said, referring to Israel’s foreign intelligence service.
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