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
 
The Ukrainian ambassador to Lebanon's pager also blew up. I have a feeling Mossad fucked up, meant to trigger one or two and they all exploded.

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The Ukrainian ambassador to Lebanon's pager also blew up. I have a feeling Mossad fucked up, meant to trigger one or two and they all exploded.

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Khomenko may have stolen the pager off a Hezbollah member. Happens all the time, I lost like three phones in Kiev.

It doesn't make sense to trigger just a couple and leave the rest, because then the rest of the pagers will be thrown out.
 
The Ukrainian ambassador to Lebanon's pager also blew up. I have a feeling Mossad fucked up, meant to trigger one or two and they all exploded.

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Ukrainian ambassador caught in 4K holding a Hezbollah Party Popper.

Lol somebody is going to have some 'splaining to do.
 
Li-ion batteries do not detonate like that, those seem like legit explosives. It was most likely a supply chain attack, sounds like Hezbollah bought some discount pagers in bulk from Israel. Mossad Agent Makhshir Kesher has done his job, bros.
I hope they massively overcharged them for them too because that would be the most Hebraic thing ever.
 
Ukrainian ambassador caught in 4K holding a Hezbollah Party Popper.

Lol somebody is going to have some 'slaining to do.
It doesn't make sense for Israel to detonate all of these at the same time with the innocent and collateral damage it would cause (even by Israeli standards), I really think they fucked up.
 
Did all the pagers to go hezbolah fighters? If some went to civvies then isn't this a war crime/terrorist attack?

Stop being faggots, Israel, if you want to take them down, do so face first, not with bitch-level pussy tactics.

Yeah, remind me how this is any different than an IDE attack? Or drone bombing a wedding? How many of those pagers were on kitchen tables, how many kids were on laps when they went off?.... You would almost rather see dystopian facial recognition explosion drones, at least they have some target control. As usual though, rules for thee and not the Israeli.

Congratulations on winning this round of Semite on Semite violence but understand that when you Shlomos talk about "cowardly terrorist tactics and muh civilian casualties" this is why it rings hollow.
 
Did all the pagers to go hezbolah fighters? If some went to civvies then isn't this a war crime/terrorist attack?
Sort of like how if you bomb a city some civilians take some hits?
Stop being faggots, Israel, if you want to take them down, do so face first, not with bitch-level pussy tactics.
Yeah they should be real men like Hamas and brainwash kids from 12 or so into becoming suicide bombers deliberately targeting civilians.

I don't see why one side should play by Marquess of Queensberry rules while the other side gets to go into the muck.
If they did replace the internals that means there was a whole secret factory that got a sample internal, recreated it with (lets assume) COTS Parts just smaller, got 3k pagers, and replaced the internals + putty with out any one noticing.
So long as they were doing that they probably also added in some extra surveillance and have a good idea of all the comings and goings of the Hezbollah tards in the days before they went off.
 
Like putting out an ink pack that explodes when you steal something, but gorier and harder to hide the evidence.

There's no way this wasn't intentional, the simultaneous detonation. If two or three blew up people would crack theirs open and inspect, or throw their devices out that were the same make/model. This was an op to see who was getting pager distribution and mark them in a way that couldn't be hidden.
 
It doesn't make sense for Israel to detonate all of these at the same time with the innocent and collateral damage it would cause (even by Israeli standards), I really think they fucked up.
I mean shit, Hezbollah actively uses civilian areas as their own and has their fighters dressed as civilians. If an extremely targeted attack like this causes civilian deaths it's on Hezbollah.
 
It doesn't make sense for Israel to detonate all of these at the same time with the innocent and collateral damage it would cause (even by Israeli standards), I really think they fucked up.
seems like the idea here was that somebody called up Pagers By The Pound and was like "hello, I am needed pagers for not islamic terror. Please to deliver to H. Bollah, 123 PBUH Lane, Explosion Street, Derkastan. Thanks!"
and somebody ganked the package and added some extra zazz, not like, this is a feature in all pagers
 
It doesn't make sense for Israel to detonate all of these at the same time with the innocent and collateral damage it would cause (even by Israeli standards), I really think they fucked up.
Innocents? Collateral damage? Have you been paying attention to how Israel is handling Palestine currently? Those pagers were meant for Hezbollah members, and blowing them all up at the same time regardless of collateral damage is absolutely what they intended.
 
I mean shit, Hezbollah actively uses civilian areas as their own and has their fighters dressed as civilians. If an extremely targeted attack like this causes civilian deaths it's on Hezbollah.
This wasn't extremely targeted though, hundreds of these things blew up at the same time. Like, all of them, regardless of where they were or who had them. That's not Mossad's M.O.
 
It doesn't make sense for Israel to detonate all of these at the same time with the innocent and collateral damage it would cause (even by Israeli standards), I really think they fucked up.
But then the muzzies might look into the pagers exploding and find miniature bombs inside, and throw the rest away. Detonating them at once was the right call because of the shock and awe factor, as well as the strain it put on hezbollah by having so many of its members essentially incapacitated.
 
This wasn't extremely targeted though, hundreds of these things blew up at the same time. Like, all of them, regardless of where they were or who had them. That's not Mossad's M.O.
These pagers were purchased specifically for Hezbollah members for secure communications. There's zero reason for a civilian to have a pager in 2024, they use normal phones. That's how the targeting was accomplished, these devices were intended for Hezbollah use only.
 
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