Israel's desperate pager terrorism
The exploding pager operation was, undeniably, a terrorist attack against Lebanon and the Lebanese people, not a cyber attack against Hezbollah and its fighters as the occupation forces have claimed.
The desperate Israeli regime has resorted to the indiscriminate maiming and murder of innocent Lebanese men, women and children through exploding pagers and walkie-talkies.
This dastardly operation, occurring on two consecutive days, can be taken as a sure sign that Tel Aviv believed it was losing the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip against Hezbollah and other resistance groups elsewhere.
The death toll from the pager blast stood at 12 and included two children, with some 2800 others wounded, 200 of them critically.
One of the injured was Iran's ambassador to Lebanon, Mujtaba Amani, who suffered minor injuries.
During the second wave of attacks, the walkie-talkie blasts killed 20 and injured at least 450; meanwhile, in Syria the exploding pagers injured at least 14 people.
Hezbollah said that it had ordered 5,000 pagers made by Taiwan-based Gold Apollo. Now the company has denied that it had made the pagers pointing to BAC consulting, a firm located in Budapest, Hungary.
This is important, since, based on the supply chain, the manipulation was concluded to have taken place at the source where the manufacturing actually took place. In a covert operation Mossad planted three grams of explosives inside the devices during the manufacturing process.
These explosives detonated after they received a signal. These modified pagers, like standard models, could wirelessly receive text messages, but they're incapable of making phone calls.
Mossad had embedded a tiny circuit board inside each pager. The detonators were linked to a receiver that was triggered remotely by a coded message that then led to the coordinated explosion.
Some of the detonations took place after the pages rang.
Walkie-talkies, solar equipment, fingerprint scanners and phones were cited as devices that exploded.
The handheld radios were purchased by Hezbollah five months ago, around the same time that the pagers were bough, according to a security source.
There's no doubt that Israel was behind the attack, which was most probably a joint operation between various sections of Israeli intelligence service, involving cyber warfare unit 8200, the Mossad, and, the Israeli military.
Two US officials have said that Israel briefed the US on the operation prior to carrying it out. Israel, however, has not commented directly on the explosions.
Israeli covert forces have previously placed explosives in personal phones to target enemies, as described in the 2018 book, 'Rise and Kill First'.
Poison toothpaste, exploding mobile phones, remote controlled exploding tires, armed drones, to name just a few of these terrorist tactics employed by the Israeli regime.
Israel announced that it was expanding the aims in its genocidal war against Palestinians to include securing the Northern Front with Lebanon.
Hezbollah decried the pager and walkie-talkie attacks as an act of terrorism and a declaration of war.
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