Dozens of members of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah were seriously wounded on Tuesday in Lebanon’s south and the southern suburbs of Beirut when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, security sources told Reuters.
A Reuters journalist saw 10 Hezbollah members bleeding from wounds in the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahiyeh.
Hawkay on
If true, that’s the craziest thing i’ve heard of.
literally out of a james bond movie, times 100.
crooked_cat on
Made in Israel, bought in China ?
Dragon_yum on
This is some Scifi shit.
Professional_Key_179 on
The most worthy mass castration.
armchairmegalomaniac on
It wasn’t Israel, just Samsung being shitty again.
robotdaddyv721 on
Zero days pagers.
Japan-Bandicoot on
Already reports of hundreds of injured
DanKafe on
Three biggest question is who tf still uses pagers. It’s 2024.
Silverleaf_86 on
This is so smart on two different levels
One is the obvious: incite fear in Hezbollah’s members showing them that they can get them anywhere.
Second: now you can track the ambulances and understand where the high ranking members are hidden. Safe houses locations of interest etc
gi_jose00 on
Eli Copter
YogiBarelyThere on
How much explosive material does a pager even contain? The batteries are probably lithium ion and tiny.
gunnie56 on
A mossad classic, but never seen it done on this scale
destuctir on
So terrorists were walking around with bombs strapped to their belts for god knows how long? The dramatic irony is palpable
yuvaldv1 on
Man the videos are crazy. I thought the batteries caught fire but they simply exploded
Koakie on
>According to Al-Hadath, the IDF remotely detonated the communication devices using advanced technology. However, Israel has not taken responsibility for the explosions.
Imagine your massive bombing campaign is ruined because all your pagers got an Amber alert.
Redditry119 on
how in the goddamn…I’ve even seen a video of it happening and I still don’t understand…what the hell is this? WHAT IN TARNATION?
If they can do this with a regular pager, I’d assume by somehow overloading the battery. I’m going to go ahead and guess it’s somehow possible with smartphones too.
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Dozens of members of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah were seriously wounded on Tuesday in Lebanon’s south and the southern suburbs of Beirut when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, security sources told Reuters.
A Reuters journalist saw 10 Hezbollah members bleeding from wounds in the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahiyeh.
If true, that’s the craziest thing i’ve heard of.
literally out of a james bond movie, times 100.
Made in Israel, bought in China ?
This is some Scifi shit.
The most worthy mass castration.
It wasn’t Israel, just Samsung being shitty again.
Zero days pagers.
Already reports of hundreds of injured
Three biggest question is who tf still uses pagers. It’s 2024.
This is so smart on two different levels
One is the obvious: incite fear in Hezbollah’s members showing them that they can get them anywhere.
Second: now you can track the ambulances and understand where the high ranking members are hidden. Safe houses locations of interest etc
Eli Copter
How much explosive material does a pager even contain? The batteries are probably lithium ion and tiny.
A mossad classic, but never seen it done on this scale
So terrorists were walking around with bombs strapped to their belts for god knows how long? The dramatic irony is palpable
Man the videos are crazy. I thought the batteries caught fire but they simply exploded
>According to Al-Hadath, the IDF remotely detonated the communication devices using advanced technology. However, Israel has not taken responsibility for the explosions.
Imagine your massive bombing campaign is ruined because all your pagers got an Amber alert.
how in the goddamn…I’ve even seen a video of it happening and I still don’t understand…what the hell is this? WHAT IN TARNATION?
Videos for the curious:
https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1836037485492629605
Exploding pagers wasn’t in my bingo card
Imagine when cell phones start blowing up next to your head while talking.
Good job Israel, hitting only Hezbollah members. But people will keep complaining about Israel
r/nextfuckinglevel
That’s some next level stuff..
So an Anon phone style attack with a compromised product being distributed amongst Hezbollah or a zero day that makes the batteries rapidly overheat?
>Pagers
Were these fuckers watching the Wire?
That a war opening move, you disable a huge number of commanders, effectively shut down enemy communication, make the enemy paranoid.
Really quite funny, actually.
This is a play Israel has done before.
In October 1995, Kamil Hamad met with Shin Bet operatives, demanding money and Israeli identity cards for himself and his wives.
After they threatened to inform on him, he agreed to cooperate.
Shin Bet agents gave him a cell phone and told him it was bugged so they could listen in on his conversations.[17]
They did not tell him that it also contained 15 grams of RDX explosive.[3]
Hamad gave the phone to his nephew Osama, knowing that Ayyash regularly used Osama’s phones.[18]
At 08:00 on 5 January 1996, Ayyash’s father called him and Ayyash answered.
Overhead, an Israeli plane picked up their conversation and relayed it to an Israeli command post.
When it was confirmed that it was Ayyash on the phone, Shin Bet remotely detonated it, killing him instantly.[3]
He was in Beit Lahia at the time.[19]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash
If they can do this with a regular pager, I’d assume by somehow overloading the battery. I’m going to go ahead and guess it’s somehow possible with smartphones too.