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Hezbollah pagers compromised in a ‘major state operation’

Elijah Magnier, a military and political analyst, explained how the pagers used in the attack on Hezbollah members were compromised.

“There is an explosive – a type of PETN – that has been embedded within the pager electronic circuit, showing an advanced level of technical expertise and the involvement of a state-level intelligence agency,” Magnier told Al Jazeera from Brussels.

“The shipment was on its way, not directly to Lebanon, because it’s forbidden for Lebanon to receive these kinds of devices, and stopped on the harbour nearby for three months. And according to the Hezbollah investigation, that was enough time for the Israelis to plant the explosive that is very highly explosive.”

Magnier also explained how the explosions took place.

“The way the Israelis did it is they sent a message to these pagers. And with the message, there were errors. Three times errors. And the people needed to look at it and the pager started vibrating. And the pager exploded. This is why more than 300 people lost both hands and many others lost one eye or two eyes, while 150 others lost part of their stomach.

The investigators were able to reach these conclusions from the pagers that did not explode, Magnier said.

“Because they were thousands unexploded, others that burned and there were some failures in the trigger system of the pager and that allowed the investigators to reconnect the dots and understand how this happened,” he said.



Full details here https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/247941/israel-hamas-war-gaza-genocide/428/
(all the pager stuff starts about halfway down that page)