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Previous reports said Hezbollah fighters had decided to switch from risky mobile phones to outdated pagers just months before mobile phone explosions across Lebanon on Tuesday.
Suspicious explosions caused by wireless pagers used by members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah have occurred across Lebanon, killing at least eight people and wounding around 3,000, including dozens of militants, according to local estimates.
Hezbollah and Lebanon Both blamed Israel. No US government has claimed responsibility for the massacre. A State Department spokesman said Washington was not involved in the pager explosion and had no knowledge of the attack beforehand.
Although there is speculation, it is unclear at this time exactly how the detonation of portable communication devices occurred in such an elaborate and coordinated manner, nor is it known how many pagers were exploded.
Some Experts and analysts It’s possible that the pager was tampered with some time ago, implanting an explosive device and programming it to explode when it received a specific message. Another possibility is that a cyber attack on the battery caused it to overheat and explode.
Hezbollah relies heavily on pagers for communication, but that wasn’t always the case. Reuters reported in July: Report Following the loss of several commanders, the militants have abandoned cellphones, which are insecure for combat purposes, in favor of older means of communication such as pagers, in an effort to stay ahead of Israel’s highly capable intelligence agencies, according to sources familiar with the group.
Concerns that cellphones are vulnerable and could be used to track individuals’ movements are not limited to the Middle East — the tactic led to deadly attacks in the Ukraine war, for example — and the trend has led the U.S. military to pay close attention to the potential threats posed by personal devices.
Lebanese security agencies He told Reuters. Hezbollah said on Tuesday that the pagers were new models that the group had acquired in recent months.
Israel and Hezbollah have repeatedly exchanged gunfire in cross-border attacks since the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas. Deadly fighting between the two bitter rivals has forced tens of thousands of people to flee northern Israel and southern Lebanon.
Tuesday’s pager incident came just hours after Israel vowed to step up military pressure on Hezbollah to allow displaced people to return.
“The Security Council updated its war objectives to include the safe return of residents in the north to their homes,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement early Tuesday local time.
“Israel will continue to act to achieve this objective,” he added.
Israel and Hezbollah have managed to avoid a major confrontation despite fears of escalating tensions over the years, but the pager explosion has rekindled fears that the two rivals could erupt into all-out war.