War More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah members, wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode - Israel blows the balls off Hezbollah members

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BEIRUT, Sept 17 (Reuters) - More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, security sources told Reuters.
A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation of the pagers was the "biggest security breach" the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of war with Israel.
Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the Gaza war erupted last October, the worst such escalation in years.

The Israeli military declined to comment on Reuters enquiries about the detonations.
Iran's Mehr news agency said the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was injured by one of the blasts. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.
A Reuters journalist saw ambulances rushing through the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, amid widespread panic. A security source said that devices were also exploding in the south of Lebanon.

At Mt. Lebanon hospital, a Reuters reporter saw motorcycles rushing to the emergency room, where people with their hands bloodied were screaming in pain.
The head of the Nabatieh public hospital in the south of the country, Hassan Wazni, told Reuters that around 40 wounded people were being treated at his facility. The wounds included injuries to the face, eyes and limbs.
The wave of explosions lasted around an hour after the initial detonations, which took place about 3:45 p.m. local time (1345 GMT). It was not immediately clear how the devices were detonated.

Lebanese internal security forces said a number of wireless communication devices were detonated across Lebanon, especially in Beirut's southern suburbs, leading to injuries.
Groups of people huddled at the entrance of buildings to check on people they knew who may have been wounded, the Reuters journalist said.
Regional broadcasters carrying CCTV footage which showed what appeared to be a small handheld device placed next to a grocery store cashier where an individual was paying spontaneously exploding. In other footage, an explosion appeared to knock out someone standing at a fruit stand at a market area.

Lebanon’s crisis operations center, which is run by the health ministry, asked all medical workers to head to their respective hospitals to help cope with the massive numbers of wounded coming into for urgent care. It said health care workers should not use pagers.
The Lebanese Red Cross said more than 50 ambulances and 300 emergency medical staff were dispatched to assist in the evacuation of victims.

Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel immediately after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas gunmen on Israel. Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire constantly ever since, while avoiding a major escalation as war rages in Gaza to the south.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced from towns and villages on both sides of the border by the hostilities.


From OSINT

What we know so far:
- Explosion happened simultanously
- Explosions didn't only happen in Lebanon, but in Syria too so it's a long range to be wireless detonation signal.
- The pager is 'Rugged Pager AR924' produced by a Taiwanese company
- Small Li-Ion battery, can't explode that big
- None of the pagers caught fire, which is common incase of a battery 'explosion' rather they just exploded.
- However the pagers did heat up before
- All exploded pagers were the same model of pager.
- The pagers came from one shipment

Also pretty shitty headline considering this was an attack that could only hit Hezbollah members

Video of the attacks
 
Why is this featured and also filled with jidf tier posters going formerly chucks on each other?
I guess josh really DOES love israel and it wasnt a joke the whole time
Like everyone else on the forum, we like it when /pol/tards have their hugbox invaded and they suffer.
 
Hello functional retard friend,

Please read the part where they were exploding in public in markets and crowded streets on video. Realize that civilian collateral is guaranteed.

Thank you

Imagine applying these arguments to LA drive bys. "Don't ya'll foos undasand dose bullets be sent to crips n'sheeit. They dun started dis sheeit when dey shot muh nigga Jamal., it be der fault errybody at dah club be catchin' lead nigga." Have your brutal mask-off terf war of terror but don't pretend you ride a high horse when it's legs have clearly been blown off.
What does this have to do with people wondering why they were using archaic tech like pagers when the reason is explained in the OP?
 
I mean a broader war with Lebanon that the US and many Israelis oppose. Israel's defense minister is even opposed. Doesn't matter if Lebanon "starts" such a war now though.
Hezbollah is vastly unpopular among the non-Shia population and when you consider that's over two thirds of the population, I doubt there will be much call to war for an attack that almost exclusively tolerated Hezbollah terrorists. Considering that Israel has all but leveled the entirety of Lebanon before for less, it's a rather measured response historically speaking.
What does this have to do with people wondering why they were using archaic tech like pagers when the reason is explained in the OP? hmm
It literally also made it virtually certain anyone in possession of one of these devices was Hezbollah, since nobody else would even want these things in this day and age.

Bonus points if it was one of their agents who filled them with (otherwise justifiable) paranoia about cell phones.
 
I wonder if Hamas will make an exception with the ‘dogs are filthy’ opinion when they realise that a decent explosives dog would be able to screen entire warehouses for explosives in an hour or so.
Sniffer doggies about to become worth their weight in gold.
Even if they didn't believe dogs were "filthy" (what kind of retards are they, dogs are some of the most useful animals, fucking sand people.) are they even smart enough to train the dogs to sniff out the bombs?
 
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Hezbollah have released a photograph of the presumed Israeli operative who sold them the pagers :wow:

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Which is why I don't think Israal intended to detonate all of these things at once and someone fucked up or the system malfunctioned (like they did with Stuxnet). You just made my point.
So they openly say they're going to destroy these groups outright. Then they fuck up half of them simultaneously. And this is totally an "accident." Lmao what a loon.
 
The propaganda will be a net negative.
Not compared to the alternative of taking out the same number of Hezbollah goons the old-fashioned way - i.e. with bombs and missiles and ground troops, which would take much longer (and thus invite protests and constant media whining) and would cause a much higher number of civilians casualties.
 
My brain still views KF as a gossip site first and news second.

Anyway new numbers came out

4k injured 400 critically injured, 20 dead so far. 3 of 20 were civilians
That's extremely clean tbh. If USA was working on this project you would have collateral damage everywhere.
This is why I don't like the wording of the feature. Hezbollah bought them from Iran or straight from Taiwan, they didn't know Israel was involved.
I don't like the wording of ", including Hezbollah members," since that implies that some of these people with the pagers weren't Hezbollah, though it seems like if you had one of these pagers, you got it from Hezbollah, because you are a member, and they needed to stay in touch with you. "More than 1,000 Hezbollah members, and some civilian casualties, wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode" would be more descriptive, and spared the stateside medfags who have to carry pagers a bit of a fright.
i imagine if you were sitting next to one of these things when it popped you would probably be hurt too. there were inevitably casualties here, but i doubt it's more than a bombing would have caused, and the infrastructure damage was certainly minimal in comparison.


is there any concrete info on this yet? i've been trying to find it, maybe i missed it in the thread.
You should be fine if you don't spend a bunch of your time in close proximity with Lebanese terrorists. That girl who died when her dad's pager blew up? Well, maybe he shouldn't have been a terrorist, then he'd have never got that pager, and then his daughter would still be alive.
 
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