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Pagers carried by thousands of Hezbollah operatives exploded within a short period Tuesday, injuring nearly 2,800 people and killing nine. The explosions spread across Lebanon in areas where Hezbollah had a heavy presence. A Hezbollah official said many fighters had such devices, speculating that malware might have caused the devices to explode.

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    94·
    2 months ago

    Israel placed explosive material in a batch of Taiwanese-made pagers which were imported into Lebanon and destined for Hezbollah, the New York Times reported, citing American and other officials briefed on the operation.

    (source)

    I highly doubt every one of those pagers made it exclusively into a terrorists hands; but that’s also why I included the second half of that sentence:

    and/or used directly in the vicinity of civilians.

    Regardless, it’s evident many civilians have been harmed by this, and it was easy to predict this was the obvious outcome.

    • steventhedev@lemmy.world
      65·
      2 months ago

      They were provided from an Iranian supplier who added encryption hardware to them. These were not used by the wider public. Hezbollah has already announced that all but one of the fatalities were senior leaders. The one that wasn’t was one of their daughters. Killed in the car her father was driving.

      These were carried only and exclusively by active commanders of Hezbollah and their direct partners.