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
 
1) I'm not at war and therefore do not have to condone actions I see as savage. The article above sites only 2 confirmed of 9 dead being enemy combatants. I have no idea what the total was for the radios. Hopefully it was more precise.
more precise than two people right next to a terrorist who shouldn't have been next to them in the first place knowing he could've been targeted?

2) Yes I believe people care about human rights. Those that don't are called tyrants.
can you stop editing what i said you faggot? i said governments. not people. here, i got you fam. "BAD ISRAEL, NO CIVILIANS." there, i did what i have the power to do, you retarded nigger.

3) That is a theory. I'm operating on the belief it was the manufacturer itself that was compromised. Courier could have been as well. Either way they were able to infiltrate a service and use it to execute people.
so you're making shit up instead of looking at literally every single person involved in this, including pro-hezbollah sources? the only reason to do that would be because otherwise this retarded ass narrative instantly falls apart. even lebenon is saying it was hezbollah devices. come on bro.

4) I don't see terrorist attacks such as IEDs as honorable.
there is no winning in this scenario. no matter what israel does to these terrorists you will never accept it as legitimate force. the terrorists should not be near civilians, end of story. there would be no dead civilians at all from this if people weren't getting those pagers to commit terrorist attacks, or even just 'military operations'. they were military targets. hezbollah mixes military targets into civilians to shield them from harm, and now that people are finding ways around massive civilian casualties, you reveal your true colors that it was never about civilian casualties, because if it was, you would be very happy that these latest attacks have been so light on civilian casualties in comparison to how this war has been going. you wanna start tallying up civilian casualties? hezbollah could easily stop all civilian deaths by moving its operatives out of the cities of lebanon. they don't, because they also don't care. as has been pointed out before, muzzies use these exact same tactics constantly and consistently. don't be a hypocrite, nigger.

5) You gave some rambling bullshit about it being a foreign government who is spying as a point why I shouldn't worry about overreach of my own government.
yes, israel as a foreign government is going to do what their foreign government wants to do. you, if you even are an american, would not have any say over israeli military doctrine, and based on how nations work, they SHOULD be spying on other countries to keep their citizens safe. i don't like that it's done to regular civilians, but i also don't like that niggers get off scott free for murder when whites are jailed for bullshit they didn't do, but that's the fucking world we live in bro, sometimes things are shitty and there's nothing we can do about it. grow the fuck up.

6) A stock phone could be dangerous without explosives. Your video and another posted before supports that. Getting ahead of myself because short of some genius chemical engineering, phones with explosives would be detectable if mass produced. However, phones already have the potential to be dangerous without extensive tampering.
a stock phone was already dangerous before this, you dumbshit. the CIA isn't full of downs syndrome retards, do you think they don't have programs that can overheat a phone battery? there are script kiddies who can do that shit. come the fuck on, bro. you are just not making any sense here. there's no new precedent being set. it's classic sabotage, but the sabotage is being done to a bunch of niggers who have no respect for civilian safety, so they throw their sabotaged military shit that should never be anywhere near civilians into populated cities and then people expect that never to cause any crossfire damage. retarded, muzzie-excusing, slimesucking behavior.

7) I don't disagree that the Muslim terrorists are the bad guys here. I'd probably be arguing against them (or not caring because for Muslims this shit is just another day) if their violence was featured. It isn't. What we have is a fairly innovative attack that should be scrutinized because I don't want governments sending people exploding or otherwise harmful phones whenever they want to whack a dissident.
buddy, they already did shit like this far before an explosive pager or phone. this is not a new trick, is the point i have been trying to get across to you. it is not supremely novel, it is not unique, it's not even unique for the israelis themselves. this is just a twist on the old classic of sabotaging your enemy's materiel on the way in. it's something every military does, and as i pointed out, it's one of the most basic tenets of war as elaborated by sun-tzu, cause your enemy to rot from within. not to mention how effective paranoia in a military organization is as a weapon, and just a general method of disarraying your foes.

My stance: Middle east had peace when the US had a stronger leader. Since then peace has fallen apart and Israel has done what it has had to in order to defend itself. Here they are using tactics that closely resemble that of terrorists and there have been tragic casualties that many here are overlooking because of exploding dicks, as though people had the pager strapped to their dong.
bolding is mine. no one is overlooking them. every single person i have seen anyone argue with in this thread has said 'the terrorists are responsible for these people being dead because they had every opportunity not to put themselves into the crosshairs of an official war. their organization is a declared war organization. i don't know how else to say that if you choose to become an enemy combatant, and then also intentionally choose to disregard the rules of war in place to keep civilians safe, that sometimes, even if the enemy you're fighting is trying VERY hard to keep those casualties down in this case, there are still some.

the 'terrorist tactics' that you're mentioning are nothing close to the level of precision seen here. they include flying planes into buildings, blowing up squares with suicide bombs, and storing their materiel in civilian structures so that they won't be attacked by a military force much stronger than them who could easily wipe out their locations if they were to use secure facilities. that's not called unfair, that's called losing in military might projection and defense capability, and it doesn't excuse them putting civilians at risk to shore up that weakness.

at some point, the terrorist has to be responsible for his choice to join a terrorist organization and bring upon him a government's wrath for his part in that war. whether you believe it's justified or not is entirely irrelevant, because they are a declared military force who do not wear uniforms, do not have bases, and use civilian structures for military storage and other purposes. that is WHY you aren't supposed to do that. eventually, you have to acknowledge that you cannot just let terrorists get away with bombings on YOUR civilians while they hide among their own, none of whom seem eager to cast them out either. if i had someone come into my house that was part of a terrorist organization, i would instantly tell them to get the fuck out, and you know why? because i have people that i love here, and i don't want them to get blown up by a hellfire missile because the government finds out i have a terrorist in my house.

is that entirely just? no, of course not. ideally they would never harm an innocent in any way, and the terrorists would never put innocents in harm's way, but it's kind of in the name. they're TERRORISTS. they want that harm to come to israel's citizens, but not theirs (unless of course a strike team is in their home, in which case it's every man for himself, plenty of wives and children to use as shields). this is just how the world works. it's a shitty place, all the people involved with this war are making decisions that are shitty in some way because it's war, there are basically no good decisions, just varying magnitudes of shitty ones.

i'm not championing israel for their murder of two innocents in the crossfire, i'm not championing them at all, other than possibly if you consider it championing to say this was a surprisingly strong blow to hezbollah with very little collateral for the result. i'm just not interested in a bunch of people rolling in to accuse me of being a jew-lover just because i happen to hate muslims in this case.
 
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There’s a way of overheating the battery remotely on a regular device
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The batteries that get put in such devices are usually three wire constructions, positive and negative polarity (obviously) and the third wire is a thermistor to report the battery overheating so a defective battery doesn't blow up while the device is charged. (Lithium cell explosions can be quite impressive by themselves and I have been wondering for years why this is not weaponized, you don't really need explosives to cause some mayhem if you have Lithium cells) Most devices don't even bother checking this third wire outside of charging.

These batteries basically come with a little protection circuit set on top of them. (short circuit, overcharge, overheating etc.) Without going into a lot of detail, this is a very primitive, generic but reliable circuit. It's attached to the battery cell usually via two "latches". This circuit is indeed so generic that you can usually switch it out in between similar battery cells with no big trouble and it will still do it's job. There's honestly not a whole lot you can tamper with here; if you don't want the battery to generally run hot or tether on the edge of explosion at all times, that is. These circuits are all pretty much the same, from $5 chinese mp3 player to newest $1000 smartphone. There's no reason to cut corners here for anyone because they're already cheap as shit.

There's no protection beyond that point. You remove this little circuit board on top of the battery (it's usually simply wrapped in tape to the battery cell) connect these two poles of a fully charged lithium cell, it'll catch fire and explode. Lithium cells have a very low inner resistance compared to more classical battery technologies like NiMh for example. There's a lot of energy to be unleashed even in a small cell. This is what makes modern mobile devices possible. Without Lithium, we would not have smartphones or they'd be at least a lot bigger and thicker. Ever saw ads of "mobile phones" of the 80s and 90s where people carry them around as small luggage? Basically that's what we would have without lithium.

Now, the pagers used here I'm not familiar with, but I'm going to assume that they all use some highly integrated one chip solution to cut costs. They might load a firmware from an external ROM, they might not. I don't know. They'll have some at least one time, fusable programmable storage to know their own, unique "identity", at the very least, or they would not work as pagers because they wouldn't be uniquely addressable. What I'm almost sure of is that they probably spend most of their life in an idle state with very low power consumption and just intermittently wake up to check the radio (which probably is part of the chip) and then either directly go back to sleep or start processing, checking if they're addressed, displaying messages to the screen etc. when there's something to process. The screen might be connected to this one chip in either a parallel way, or a serial way. This depends on the setup. Since I assume this pager was made as cheap as possible, knowing most of these screens my guess would be parallel.

So without changing the firmware (if that is not possible) you could tap into the communication between this chip and screen with a small and very cheap micro that could fit on your fingernail, waiting for a specific series of characters and then shorten the battery out, which through overheating and catching on fire could trigger an explosive (This sentence recently added to make it more clear that the battery would not have this kind of energy by itself). With having control over the firmware, you could probably make the chip do that by itself. You could also sabotage the battery to always run hot beyond a specific consumption point if you know of a bug in the firmware of the chip (for example a specifically crafted message; such bugs are not uncommon) that might get it stuck in a loop with increased power consumption. You could also introduce such a bug, if you have control over the firmware. This would amount to soldering some wires, which really only would be a small extra step if they already placed explosives. This is a process that can be taught to unskilled labor, but it's honestly not a time intensive endeavor for a few thousand units.

There's honestly a lot of ways to sabotage such devices, many of them don't even really need you to have some kind of privileged access to their inner workings. I'm honestly surprised they're not weaponized more often.
 
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You train faggots are insufferable. I just flew 3/4ths of the way across the country for $200 round trip. I also travel to Europe quite a bit and almost always end up between countries there becaise it's cheaper and faster for anything other than very short distances. Go back to Reddit.
Was it Boeing? Have fun getting sucked out of a 737 max 8 door at 30,000 ft. Flying was great until they started this DEI bullshit. Go ahead and with a straight face tell me you have ZERO PROBLEMS getting on a Boeing 737 max piloted by Paljeet, Pindahar and Lakshmi. Go ahead, get on the flight or drive for 36 hours its your call.
 
Syrians celebrating "Pager explosion day."

The joy of Syrian Hezbollah opponents: "Pager explosion day" is now a holiday, Hezbollah operatives have become "useless" (to their partners)

A Syrian refugee who suffered under Hezbollah in the Syrian civil war declares September 17 a national holiday for free Syrians, marking the events affecting Hezbollah. He says:

"Today, I’m celebrating. All the social media videos are of women because all the Hezbollah men are in hospitals... Some are injured here (pointing), some in the face, and some had limbs severed. It’s said 90% of Hezbollah operatives are now ‘useless’ (to their partners)... Most put pagers in their pockets, so imagine what happened. (Note the pictures of sausages that were added to the video 😁)."

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He’s not alone. Many videos online show opponents of Hezbollah in the Arab World celebrating and mocking the organization's operatives after the humiliating blow.
 
Inflicting 4000+ casualties on high ranking Hezbollah members (high ranking members were more likely to be first to receive an upgraded pager compared to the rank and file) with minimal civilian casualties is beyond surgical. It's practically unprecedented. This is one for the textbooks. Especially when you realize that inflicting 4000 casualties on Hezbollah militants in a more traditional conflict would've incurred much higher civilian casualties, considering how Hezbollah is known for using human shields.

Not to mention the humint benefits, disrupting their communication network, sowing chaos in their ranks, and making them terrified of any electronic device.
And by intensively examining data on where asplosions happened, which hospitals received what amount of injured, who the injured were, etc., Israel is going to glean a huge amount of intel about Hezbollah personnel and infrastructure
 
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"The Protocol prohibits the use of land mines, remotely delivered mines, or booby traps to kill civilians or to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering to soldiers. It also prohibits the use of booby traps that are "attached to or associated with" any of the following features:

(a) internationally recognized protective emblems, signs or signals;(b) sick, wounded or dead persons;(c) burial or cremation sites or graves;(d) medical facilities, medical equipment, medical supplies or medical transportation;(e) children's toys or other portable objects or products specially designed for the feeding, health, hygiene, clothing or education of children;(f) food or drink;(g) kitchen utensils or appliances except in military establishments, military locations or military supply depots;(h) objects clearly of a religious nature;(i) historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples; and(j) animals or their carcasses."

But the good goyim will cry "but hamas does it!".
 
apartment buildings that civilians refuse to leave.
totally disinterested "civilians" like the journalist hiding hostages in his apartment. He was filing reports for I think Al Jazeera about how bad Israel was and how they're targeting poor, innocent, non-involved civilians...while being involved in it up to his eyeballs

It also prohibits the use of booby traps that are "attached to or associated with" any of the following features:
Which of those do you think they violated? They disrupted a communications network for a terrorist organization. This is like when people used to cut phone lines in WWI in various ways, IMO. You are allowed, during a war, to disrupt your enemy's communication lines. Yes, pagers have a medical use. They were also used in trades until very recently. They were also being used by a terrorist organization in Lebanon until yesterday.

Hezbollah is not a medical organization: they're a terrorist one.
 
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i'm just not interested in a bunch of people rolling in to accuse me of being a jew-lover just because i happen to hate muslims in this case.
And I'm not interested in being called a muzzie or sympathizer just because I hate neither and want them all to get over themselves or, you know, for the civilized nation in this conflict to fucking act like it. Its not my war, but what happened here is some scary shit. I'm just glad they went for the radios after so people could get over the idea that it was only pagers. The idea that people should leave their homes because they live in a war torn nation is smart but impractical. You wouldn't leave your home if those people you or the people you loved were suddenly labeled terrorists, even if you were against a superior force. At least, I fucking hope you wouldn't. I doubt many of them even have the means to flee. Also, I use the term "people" because that is what every government, gang, organization and group under creation is composed of. People.

the CIA isn't full of downs syndrome retards
arguable
 

"The Protocol prohibits the use of land mines, remotely delivered mines, or booby traps to kill civilians or to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering to soldiers. It also prohibits the use of booby traps that are "attached to or associated with" any of the following features:

(a) internationally recognized protective emblems, signs or signals;(b) sick, wounded or dead persons;(c) burial or cremation sites or graves;(d) medical facilities, medical equipment, medical supplies or medical transportation;(e) children's toys or other portable objects or products specially designed for the feeding, health, hygiene, clothing or education of children;(f) food or drink;(g) kitchen utensils or appliances except in military establishments, military locations or military supply depots;(h) objects clearly of a religious nature;(i) historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples; and(j) animals or their carcasses."

But the good goyim will cry "but hamas does it!".
Pagers are not covered under anything from (a)-(j) and they were not booby trapped. They were sabotaged communications equipment used for military purposes. Cry more
And I'm not interested in being called a muzzie or sympathizer just because I hate neither and want them all to get over themselves or, you know, for the civilized nation in this conflict to fucking act like it. Its not my war, but what happened here is some scary shit. I'm just glad they went for the radios after so people could get over the idea that it was only pagers. The idea that people should leave their homes because they live in a war torn nation is smart but impractical. You wouldn't leave your home if those people you or the people you loved were suddenly labeled terrorists by a foreign nation, even if they were a superior force. At least, I fucking hope you wouldn't. I doubt many of them even have the means to flee. Also, I use the term "people" because that is what every government, gang, organization and group under creation is composed of. People.
You heard it here first, sabotaging enemy military equipment is barbaric. Scary shit? Good. It's past time that concave-chest beating poltards banging their keyboards get a healthy fear of the Joo in them. Now go ahead and cry you don't care as you endlessly sperg about the side that has the Joos on it being doubleplusbad

Yeah, like Milton Friedman said, everything is people. The equipment of enemy soldiers, those soldiers being people, in a war is fair game

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Well sheeeeit you're gonna have some really nasty thoughts intruding into your noggin if you ever read up on all the glow shit both sides tried to pull off in WW2, and the Cold War, and conflicts further back in history too
Russia replaced the detonator pin on their land mines with a toy and then reduced the amount of explosive specifically to maim the children it attracts.
 
Based from what everyone else's saying, I don't think Lithium ion batteries are capable of exploding like that. They tend to burst in flames, and the explosion is somewhat underwhelming compared to what we've seen here. The batteries in such a device is too small too, and couldn't possibly carry enough energy to explode with such force as seen via below. If it was possibly a battery exploding, wouldn't it burst in flames after?

 
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(a) internationally recognized protective emblems, signs or signals;(b) sick, wounded or dead persons;(c) burial or cremation sites or graves;(d) medical facilities, medical equipment, medical supplies or medical transportation;(e) children's toys or other portable objects or products specially designed for the feeding, health, hygiene, clothing or education of children;(f) food or drink;(g) kitchen utensils or appliances except in military establishments, military locations or military supply depots;(h) objects clearly of a religious nature;(i) historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples; and(j) animals or their carcasses."
Where are pagers and walkie talkies there
 
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