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Pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah were audacious and carefully planned
Israel is widely believed to be behind the operations – but who made the devices, and how did they explode?
The first wave of explosions – which occurred from about 3.30pm local time on Tuesday – appear to have been triggered by a special message from Hezbollah leadership, implying, Woodward argued, a specific modification of the pagers’ embedded software. Though Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack, few doubt its security forces were behind the effort – extraordinary because it involved thousands of devices rather a single booby-trapped phone of the type used to assassinate the Hamas leader Yahya Ayyash in 1996. But it appears Israel has been wanting to step up its attack on the militant group, two days after its security cabinet said allowing 60,000 displaced people to return safely to their homes in the north of the country was now a war aim.
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