Rumors of Israeli intelligence planting explosives in thousands of Hezbollah pagers
Sep 18, 2024
Tel Aviv [Israel], September 18: Reuters on September 18 quoted an informed source as saying that the Israeli intelligence agency (Mossad) may have planted explosives in thousands of pagers ordered by Hezbollah.
Sources say Mossad
Reuters quoted a Lebanese security source as saying that Hezbollah had ordered 5,000 pagers
Hezbollah has been using pagers as a low
The source said 3,000 pagers exploded when a coded message was sent to them, triggering the explosives. Another source said there were 3 grams of explosives in the pagers and that Hezbollah did not detect them for months.
It is unclear when Hezbollah received the pagers. Earlier this year, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
After the pager blasts, Hezbollah pledged to retaliate against Israel.
Israel has not commented on the incident.
A Hezbollah official said it was the "biggest security incident" the group has faced in nearly a year of escalating tensions with Israel. Meanwhile, Jonathan Panikoff, a former US government national intelligence official for the Middle East, said it could be Hezbollah's biggest counterintelligence failure in decades.
Source: Thanh Nien Newspaper