Now it seems clear what has long been suspected: according to security circles, the exploded Hezbollah pagers were manufactured in Israel. A network of fake companies suggested these were manufactured in Europe. There is also new information about how to proceed.
The pagers and radios, which resembled devices from companies in the Far East, were developed by Israel’s foreign intelligence service Mossad and secretly manufactured in Israel, the Washington Post reported, citing unnamed Israeli, Arab and American security services.
The pager batteries were packed with explosives that were virtually undetectable, the newspaper continued. They were detonated by a coded message.
The approach must cause the greatest possible damage
To decrypt the message you had to press two buttons at the same time – if possible injuring both hands and thus rendering the recipient unable to fight. There was initially no official confirmation of the report.
Hezbollah has only been distributing the AR924 pagers to its members since February. With the predecessors of the mobile phone you cannot make calls, but you can receive messages. From Hezbollah’s perspective, their advantage was that they cannot be tracked like cell phones.
The walkie-talkies that exploded shortly after the pagers had been in use by Hezbollah since 2015 and provided Israel with real-time information from the organization.
Intermediary company not aware of plans
Hezbollah purchased the pagers from an employee of a Taiwanese company who was unaware that the devices actually came from Israel and were primed with explosives.
At least 39 people were killed in the explosions and about 3,000 were injured, some seriously. The victims were mainly Hezbollah members. But there were also civilian casualties.
Iran-linked Hezbollah has been attacking Israel with rockets and grenades since the terrorist attack by Hamas and other extremist groups in southern Israel almost a year ago, in “solidarity” with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, as it says. This will continue until there is a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Source: Krone
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