Experts talk about the hypotheses of Hezbollah’s “Pager” booby-trapping | News

A source close to said Hezbollah Lebanese told AFP that the wireless pagers (Pager) which exploded on Tuesday in Lebanon, killing 9 people and wounding nearly 3,000, arrived via a shipment recently imported by Hezbollah containing a thousand devices, and it appears that they were “hacked from the source.”

On the X platform, Charles Lister, an expert at the Middle East Institute (MEI), wrote that “according to the video recordings, it is certain that a small plastic explosive device was hidden next to a battery that was remotely activated by sending a message.”

This means – in the expert’s opinion – that the Israeli foreign intelligence agency (Mossad) Hack the supply chain.

From Brussels, military analyst Elijah Manier spoke of a “major security flaw in Hezbollah’s procedures,” explaining that Israeli agents “undoubtedly infiltrated the production process and added an explosive element and a remote detonator to the pagers without arousing suspicion.”

For his part, Mike Dimino, a security expert and former analyst at the CIA, said:CIA), the agents “were able to deliver the devices either by posing as suppliers or by injecting the devices directly at a point in Hezbollah’s supply chain by exploiting vulnerabilities (trucks and commercial vessels).”

Classic and refined

In another hypothesis, security analyst Riad Kahwaji said, “Israel controls a large part of the world’s electronic industries, and there is no doubt that one of the factories it owns manufactured and shipped the explosive devices that exploded today.”

“It’s a classic sabotage operation, a piece of intelligence at its finest,” Demino said of the operation. “An operation of this magnitude would take months, if not years, to organize properly,” he said on X.

In turn, French defense expert Pierre Servan told AFP that “the recent series of operations carried out over the past few months means that it has recorded a resounding return, with a desire to deter and a message that says: We made a mistake, but we are not dead.”

However, he pointed out the danger of the families of the Israeli detainees in Gaza asking: “You are able to booby-trap hundreds of Hezbollah’s alarm devices and detonate them at the same time, and you are unable to free our sons?”