New York Times: “The exploding pagers were collected by Israel through a front company”
Thousands of pagers exploded simultaneously in Lebanon on Tuesday, leaving thousands injured and maimed and dozens dead, including Many advocates of the pro-Iranian Shiite Hezbollah And four children, and were assembled and manipulated under license from Israel, which tricked the Taiwanese manufacturer of the devices, Gold Apollo, into using a front company. This is what the New York Times revealed, citing “12 anonymous officials and former defense and intelligence officials.” The explosion of the pagers, which was followed yesterday by explosions of thousands of two-way radios and other electronic devices that caused another wave of deaths and injuries, is the latest act in the decades-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, which in more than a year has revealed the vulnerability of Iran and regional organizations close to the Islamic Republic to technological attacks: In 2020, the New York Times notes, Israel used an artificial intelligence-powered robot controlled remotely via satellite to assassinate some of the leading scientists in Iran’s nuclear program. The Jewish state has also made extensive use of mobile phone interceptions to track and assassinate senior figures in Hezbollah. This is precisely why Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah decided two years ago to limit digital communications as much as possible, ban cell phones during the organization’s meetings, and return to the use of pagers, compared to cell phones. Phones offer some advantages, such as faster message transmission, immunity to wiretapping, and less sensitivity to geographic interference.
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