Lebanese media outlets quoted security sources as giving new details about the wireless communication device bombings.Pager) in Lebanon yesterday, Tuesday, and revealed that it was booby-trapped from the source of its import.
According to security experts, the pagers were Hezbollah The explosive device was detonated through a piece called the “IC” which contained the explosive materials. It is an integrated system usually used in electronic devices to control some of their functions.
According to what was reported by Al-Mayadeen channel, citing unnamed security sources, this piece contains explosive materials, which means that the pager was booby-trapped precisely and hidden within the components of the device itself.
The sources added that these booby-trapped and explosive materials “are not detected by any inspection using conventional devices, and it was not possible for the available detection devices, even for countries and international airports, to detect the planted booby-trapped material using complex algorithms specific to this operation.”
The sources suggested that the Israeli foreign intelligence agency (Mossad) and the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman) are “behind this aggressive strike.”
Advanced technology
Regarding the method of detonation, the sources stated that “the detonation was carried out via a short message to the device using advanced technology that awakened the hidden explosive material, as the pager battery itself was not what created the explosive wave, but rather the lithium material that powered the device when receiving the message that caused the detonation.”
She explained that “the explosive material was directed with the aim of killing, especially those devices hung around the waist, so that the explosion wave would enter the body directly.”
She added that within about 4 seconds, after receiving the call sound with a written message, “the devices exploded automatically, whether in the face of the person who opened them or the person who did not open them.”
The American website Al-Monitor revealed, based on high-level regional intelligence sources, that Israel carried out… Her attack with pagers In Lebanon after gathering intelligence information that two members of Hezbollah They discovered the device was hacked.
The website indicated that the decision to carry out the operation was imposed on Israel due to this intelligence breach “before it was too late.”
Gold Apollo disowns
Earlier today, Taiwanese company Gold Apollo disavowed manufacturing the pagers that were detonated in Lebanon, killing 12 people and wounding nearly 3,000, most of them in the face and hands.
The company explained, in a statement, that it signed an agreement 3 years ago with a European company based in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, called “BAC”, granting it a license to manufacture the devices and use the company’s name, which is the company that manufactured the pagers that exploded in Lebanon.
On Tuesday, 12 people were killed and about 2,800 others were injured, including about 300 in critical condition, as a result of an attack that caused the explosion of thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah in particular for communications, according to the latest figures from the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
Amid Israeli silence, the Lebanese government and Hezbollah accused Israel of carrying out the bombings that caused the “Pager” incident, and the party threatened Israel with “severe accountability.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office disavowed, in a statement, a post by his adviser Topaz Luke on the X platform in which he hinted at Tel Aviv’s responsibility for the attack before deleting it.
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