Hezbollah Exploding Pagers!

I cannot believe the lack of compassion shown by some posters on here.. killing is never acceptable..

Provoke Israel and they will hit back, they have a “dirty tricks” department, the pagers were held by Hezbollah members and legitimate targets.

Jaxjacky

12 killed including two children, 3,000 injured the majority of injuries are to the face and hands.
Truly merciless.

Motjabi Amani was killed he is the Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon. Iran is the puppet master!

These people do not think twice about launching missiles at innocents.

War is a dirty business, and the Middle East is at war.

It really does seem intractable. so called "clever" move or dragging all out war in the region closer? Israel has not officially accepted responsibility

www.haaretz.com

Front page gives an idea of just how complicated and fraught tensions are over the region and sometimes just bizarre - like
"Israel Is Recruiting African Asylum Seekers for Life-threatening Gaza War Operations, Promising Permanent Legal Status". Putin involved. Previously peaceful Jordan great concerns. Gaza apparently forgotten but 1.9 million out of a population of 2 million displaced...

No, not brilliant. Cruel and indiscriminate. These explosions injured anyone in close proximity to the device including innocent bystanders.

MissInterpreted
Up until 2022 Hezbollah held 71 seats out of 128 in the Lebanese parliament.
By the law of averages it appears a lot of poor innocents voted for them.

12 killed including two children, 3,000 injured the majority of injuries are to the face and hands.
Truly merciless.

Whilst I can sympathise with any innocents who were injured yesterday, I have less than zero sympathy with Hezbollah terrorists.

I doubt they have a sympathetic atom in their entire body!

petra

Allira

Hezbollah, backed by Iran, has a history of carrying out international terrorist attacks.

These terrorist fighters are not representative of many of the Lebanese people.

I think it’s a brilliant idea. More power to their elbow.
I don’t care who manufactured them, it worked.

Pity the poor innocents who were caught up in it though, no?

Aveline

*Petra*. Nice. Not.

Hezbollah nor the powers that finance and control are nice better to knock out the bad guys than let them continue to bomb innocents.

Petra. Nice. Not.

Thanks GG13.

Allira

Hezbollah, backed by Iran, has a history of carrying out international terrorist attacks.

These terrorist fighters are not representative of many of the Lebanese people.

I think it’s a brilliant idea. More power to their elbow.
I don’t care who manufactured them, it worked.

Delila

Was the delivery of pagers destined for Hezbollah and distributed to Hezbollah operatives only, or were they available to the general population too?

Cannot find anything to say they were for general distribution online.

All articles (Reuters, BBC, SKY etc) are indicating it was a special consignment for Hezbollah in order to communicate without traceability.

Most of the people in that market fell like ninepins. It was hard to believe it was really happening.

Was the delivery of pagers destined for Hezbollah and distributed to Hezbollah operatives only, or were they available to the general population too?

Allira

Hezbollah, backed by Iran, has a history of carrying out international terrorist attacks.

These terrorist fighters are not representative of many of the Lebanese people.

Totally agree, to me they are in the same category as Hamas and Daesh

Hezbollah, backed by Iran, has a history of carrying out international terrorist attacks.

These terrorist fighters are not representative of many of the Lebanese people.

Those who live by the sword.......

Me too. The innocents caught up in all of this, in all the areas.

My only reaction is profound sadness.

From The Telegraph this morning:

“ Hezbollah’s pagers were meant to be safety measures, secure from Israeli eavesdropping.

Instead, they were a deadly Trojan horse.

After suffering a series of assassinations of top operatives during months of low-level war with Israel, this summer Hezbollah ordered its fighters to ditch their mobile phones. They were too easy to track and too readily compromised by Israel’s fearsome military hackers.

“If you’re looking for an Israeli agent, look at the phone in your hand,” Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s chief, warned his men.

Instead, communications would be confined to more old-fashioned means: couriers delivering messages by word of mouth.

Telecoms would be limited to 1980s-style pagers, with none of the vulnerabilities of smartphones, Hezbollah sources told Reuters in July.

Thousands of the latest and most secure models were duly procured and distributed to top fighters, officials and allies.

On Tuesday afternoon, that was revealed as a terrible blunder.

At 3.45pm local time, thousands of pagers in thousands of pockets simultaneously exploded.”

It is thought that the Israeli secret service intercepted the pagers then “modified” them.

Aveline

Other posters have said it all. It's like something from a film. It's real people being devastatingly injured. A bleep sounded first so they'd all be getting them out and looking at them. What sick mind came up with this then happily manufactured and supplied them?! Bad times.

We should not forget that Hezbollah and Hamas are committed to the destruction of Israel.

merlotgran

It’s very clever. Not only does it knock out Hezbollah’s communications but it identifies them.

That was my thought.

They have obviously switched to pagers as they are not as easily (if at all, will check with DS) tracked as mobile phones.

Hezbollah have been firing rockets into Israel for many years, backed by Iran. It will not be Iranian civilians suffering and dying, more Syrians, Lebanese and Israelis along with any one else in the area.