New details on Israel pager attack in Lebanon

Most of the victims were Hezbollah members. The devices came from Israel.

Die communication devices, especially when they exploded in September Members of the Shiite militia Hezbollah were killed or injured, according to a media report from Israel.

The pagers and radios, which looked like devices from companies in the Far East, were from the Israeli foreign secret service Mossad developed and secretly manufactured in Israel, the Washington Post reported, citing unnamed Israeli, Arab and US security services.

Die Batteries The pager was rigged with high explosives that were virtually undetectable, the newspaper continued. They are through one encrypted message to explode been brought. To decrypt the message, you had to press two buttons at the same time – in order to injure both hands if possible and thereby render the recipient incapable of fighting. There was initially no official confirmation of the report.

Hezbollah has the pagers from Type AR924 only distributed to its members since February. With the cell phone predecessors you can’t make calls, but you can receive messages. From Hezbollah’s perspective, their advantage was that they cannot be tracked like cell phones.

The ones that exploded shortly after the pagers Walkie-Talkies However, they had been in use by Hezbollah since 2015 and provided Israel with real-time information from the organization.

Hezbollah bought the pagers from an employee of a Taiwanese company who did not know that the devices actually came from Israel and were prepared with explosives.

In the explosions were at least 39 people killed and around 3,000 injured, some seriously. The victims were mostly Hezbollah members. But there were also civilian casualties.

Hezbollah, which is allied with Iran, has been attacking Israel with rockets and grenades since the terrorist attack by Hamas and other extremist groups on the south of Israel almost a year ago, out of “solidarity” with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, as it says. This will continue until a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.