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How Israel Turned Hezbollah’s Pagers Into Exploding Trojan Horses
It's becoming clear that Israel executed a highly complex, years-long espionage operation unlike any we have seen before to weaponize Hezbollah's communications against them. It's becoming clear that Israel executed a highly complex, years-long espionage operation unlike any we have seen before to weaponize Hezbollah's communications against them.
A communication device on the ground as the Lebanese Army prepares to destroy it in a controlled explosion, in southe rn Lebanon between the villages of Burj al Muluk and Klayaa, on September 19, 2024. The possibility of a terror campaign making use of modified electronic devices sold in public online marketplaces is a very worrying one, and one that could exploit loopholes in existing supply chains to create widespread disruption. The series of explosions this week came as a surprise, but there are also reports that the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, called his U.S. counterpart Lloyd Austin only minutes before the first wave of blasts, alerting him to the fact that an operation in Lebanon was about to begin.
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