Hezbollah pager explosions

That's a serious medium to long term strategy. Make them stop using smart phones, secretly supply them with exploding pagers, call them all at the same time months/years later. Watching some of the videos, they seem to be designed for very small local explosions, with people standing a foot away looking confused. Wonder who came up with this? Some are suggesting it was Mossad. Incredible act of sabotage, with little damage to anyone or anything else in the vicinity. Genius stuff.

Didn't even know pagers were still a thing. Everyday is a school day I guess.

https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2024/0917/1470395-middle-east/

"Yesterday, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expanded the country's goals for the war in Gaza, vowing to allow Israelis who fled areas near the Lebanon border to return to their homes." - that's why.

Just reading up about it a little more. Hard to gauge but I think it's just a case of coverage. It takes time to coordinate something like this. You want to target as many terrorists as possible but you can't wait indefinitely. Hezbollah will be rocked by this. How would they coordinate any defence? Imagine this leaves them pretty vulnerable to further attacks now, which is fantastic news.

Crazy stuff. You'd roll your eyes if it were in a James Bond movie. Presumably, the pagers had to be modified. It's ironic that criminals and terrorists are loathe to use off the shelf tech because they assume the authorities will be spying on them. Wasn't there some kind of similar (but non exploding) sting recently on big criminal gangs in Europe and the US who were caught because the customised equipment they thought was secure had been compromised, probably in a similar way to this ruse? Probably in both cases the equipment had to be physically modified by some country's security services before being supplied to the users. Something like this would have to be planned years in advance though, you'd think.

No they won't

Would that not be for mobiles though? Do pagers have the same kind of batteries even, since they're an older tech?

Absolutely mad tactic. Very out of the box thinking.

Some people are very quick

One-way communication, unlike mobile phones that can be used to guide missiles.

Also, hahahaha, fair play Mossad! Pure genius move.

This is much better than cluster bombing a crèche. Fair play

This confirmed. Thought it was only a rumour? If he dies....

I’m very skeptical this is “heat buildup of batteries to overload” suggestion.
More likely it’s similar to what the FBI did with the drug dealer network in the US and Europe a year ago: become the supplier and give them the compromised communication hardware.

I’d say they modified them with explosives, probably hidden in the battery. They detonated them all simultaneously remotely.

Typical Li-ion battery “explosions” are glorified burnings. That video looks far more like a clean explosion.

The delay between it ringing and exploding is probably to make them more lethal: the unfortunate user will take it out of their pocket and look at it before it explodes.

Genius not the word I would use to kill a 10-year old girl but people like you chalk that down as "collateral damage".

Jesus...the thoughts of some child playing with one of these pagers.. getting their hands and face blown off...

The Israelis just dont give a fùck....pure evil...

That tweet implies that "workers and doctor"s can't be members of a terrorist organisation. Play explodey games win explodey prizes

Very unlikely for multiple reasons, mainly because the battery in a pager, if it's of that type that explode which probably isn't, it's too small to kill anyone directly.

I can't understand why people are so happy to take sides in this.

Israel has carried out a lot of horrific acts but Hezbollah and Hamas are a shower of scumbags as well.

The massacres carried out in Lebanon and the subsequent destruction of that society seem to be forgotten about by many.

I'm not justifying what happened today, but I certainly wouldn't be taking anything stated by Hezbollah at face value, nor would I be demonising Israel in isolation in a situation where none of the players are worthy of support or sympathy.

And the reported dead 10 year old, if found to be true?

Yep, that was an FBI sting:

https://www.inc.com/jennifer-conrad/the-fbi-created-its-own-startup-and-used-it-to-stage-a-massive-sting-operation.html

Hugh Jeffries did a good… ehh, review 😁

Yep, they’ll generally catch fire rather than explode, but there was the publicity generated from the ‘exploding’ Samsung S7’s a few years ago, and that’s why, annoyingly but reasonably enough - An Post won’t allow you to send anything with batteries in it (normally lithium anyway) in the post. The ‘exploding’ pagers is likely more of the same thing. It’s not actually a coincidence, it has a cause, most likely Hezbollah’s procurement department has some explaining to do for purchasing poor quality products putting its suicide bombers at risk:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hezbollah-official-israel-behind-coordinated-attack-pagers-lithium-batteries-apparently-exploded/