I wonder how this will affect the ongoing tensions.
Very impressive feat on the part of the attacking side (whom might it be?)
UPDATE: 1,000 reported injured, including Iranian ambassador.
Pagers exploding in the hands of tens of Hezbollah members.
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This is crazy, straight out of a spy film. There is some footage online showing this happening, like a guy just chilling around, and then the pager on his waist goes kaboom in a split second.
Holy crap, this is insane! I’m trying to wrap my head around the scale of this – we’re talking *tens* of Hezbollah members or more? Anyone else wondering how they pulled this off? And more importantly, what’s the fallout gonna be?
I’m wondering how. I know lithium batteries are pretty reactive, but I’ve never seen them do that. Did these pagers have a little explosive in them?
Interesting that these Hezbollah affiliated pagers also found their way onto the Iranian ambassador’s hip. He was also injured in what Iran is calling a “cyberattack”.
This is a one-use weapon that Israel have obviously been sitting on for a while. I’m sure they didn’t waste it on a stunt. Why now? Are they invading?
I saw a documentary on an Israeli intelligence agency (Sayeret Matkal?) that did this to a bomb makers phone. When the Israeli’s called it to initiate it, it failed. Couple of weeks later it functioned and took out the intended target.