How Israel’s Pager Trick Fooled Hezbollah in Lebanon: New Details Emerge

Exactly a month ago, on September 17, a coordinated attack using weaponised pagers resulted in simultaneous explosions in the southern suburbs of Beirut and other Hezbollah strongholds. The devices detonated after beeping to signal incoming messages, lead to 39 deaths and over 3,400 injuries. Many victims suffered severe injuries, including eye damage, missing fingers, and gaping abdominal wounds, reflecting their close proximity to the devices at the time of explosions. The explosives were concealed within the pagers, which had been delivered to Lebanon earlier that year as part of an Israeli strategy aimed to decimate Hezbollah. The agents who made the pagers developed a battery that concealed a small but powerful charge of plastic explosive, along with a novel detonator that was undetectable by X-ray, according to a Lebanese source with firsthand knowledge of the devices and teardown photos of the battery pack