Pagers explode across Lebanon in attack targeting Hezbollah members | CNN
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At least nine people are dead and around 2,800 injured in Lebanon in an attack targeting the pagers of Hezbollah members, the Lebanese health minister said. Follow our live updates.
  • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
    301·
    2 months ago

    I’ve got $1 that says that this was a supply chain attack. LiPo batteries tend to fart fire when they overheat, not explode, and not wth enough force to blow holes in people.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    356·
    2 months ago

    Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon was one of those injured, according to Iranian state media

    What a remarkable coincidence that he happened to be in close proximity to the same type of pagers that the Hezbollah crowd was wearing.

  • camr_on@lemmy.world
    131·
    2 months ago

    This is an insane level of James Bond fuckery. I wonder how long that plan has been in the works

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      I think it’s because pagers (at least one way pagers) can’t be tracked.

      They receive only so there’s no triangulation possible.

  • thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works
    81·
    2 months ago

    quite aside from the question of how you hack thousands of pagers to make them explode, what are we carrying around in our daily lives that are one internet command away from blowing up?

    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      2 months ago

      You don’t. If you’ve seen the videos this are clearly high explosives. These devices were interdicted by Mossad long ago and triggered remotely.

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          Not much. The hard part is developing the trigger mechanism. After that, you just need a guy doing assembly to add the extra part. Or you stop the truck when it leaves the factory and delay it a day while you install the parts.

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      2 months ago

      LOL Ex-Hezbollah member changes his ways and sells his pager on E-Bay

      Someone finds a cheap pager from Iran on E-Bay and decides they want it…haha

      (I know you said Wish, but I like this story too, lol)

  • steventhedev@lemmy.world
    118·
    2 months ago

    What’s incredible to me is that this is basically guaranteed to only hit Hezbollah’s command structure. 3000 hospitalized, and so far the only collateral damage is a handful of close relatives who were in cars that created as a result. That’s biblical plague levels of precision strike capabilities.

    For Hezbollah, this is putting over half their command staff out of the picture for a week. That’s an incredible blow that will be hard for them to come back from. If Lebanon is smart, they’ll use the opportunity to forcefully disarm Hezbollah.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
      143·
      2 months ago

      That is very incorrect.

      There is a lot of footage (some “fun” and some horrific) of pagers exploding in grocery stores and malls and the like. Because the point of the pagers was for the terrorists to be reachable outside of caves and camps.

      And… there are civilians standing around in those cases. With kids who tend to have heads at waist level.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        54·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, I don’t think they were the exclusive users of these pagers. I know in the US, pagers are still used by hospital staff, for example. So if a doctor with one of these pagers has one on a bus, and it explodes, it hits a doctor and a few people around them. Not necessarily any Hezbollah (who Israel really shouldn’t be assassinating in the first place).

        Not that Israel really cares about killing innocent people. Even beyond the current genocide, and in 1946, even before Israel existed, Irgun bombed a hotel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing