The pagers for the Hezbollah group are manufactured separately and have batteries with PETN explosives.
Journalists spoke to 12 current and former employees of the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Intelligence and told how the operation against the group was prepared. Hezbollah. The New York Times writes about it
The operation was described as “complex and lengthy”, and the publication itself called it “a modern-day Trojan horse”.
According to the NYT, Israeli intelligence knew that at Hezbollah They fear being tracked by smartphones, so the head of the organization demands that its members use pagers.
Israeli intelligence saw this as an opportunity and created a front Hungarian company, BAC Consulting, which entered into a contract for the production of pagers on behalf of a Taiwanese company, where within a few years it passed the pager that sold by the group.
According to three Israeli intelligence officials, the pagers were manufactured separately and had batteries containing PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate) explosives.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health reported that as a result of the simultaneous explosion of pagers, at least 57 people were killed in two days. About three and a half thousand possible members Hezbollah was injured and damaged.
As reported, the second wave of explosions began in Lebanon on Wednesday, but this time various gadgets, mopeds and even cars exploded.
Let’s remember that on September 17, pagers used by Hezbollah militants exploded almost simultaneously in different parts of Lebanon. At least 11 people died, about 4 thousand were injured, and the condition of 400 victims was assessed as critical.
Source: korrespondent
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