Given how targeted the attacks were at certain people, does this imply a bunch of people walking around with explosives in their pagers, where they weren’t set off because they weren’t one of the targets?
Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers
dhork@lemmy.world 2 days agoNYT has a link up which it claims has been verified. It is a video of someone at a market who had one of these in their messenger bag. The video shows a decent size explosion, which blew a big hole in the bag and knocked the guy (and people around him) to the ground. I doubt you could make an explosion that big with a AA battery. They must have planted the stuff in some massive supply chain hack.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
dhork@lemmy.world 2 days ago
NYT says this switch to pagers has been recent, after the Oct 7 attacks last year, when Hezbollah suspected that Israel was spying on the cell network, and using it to locate targets for strikes. So all these pagers got distributed to Hezbollah-affiliated people in short order . This system doesn’t use commercial networks, and has been called a “closed” network by the NYT.
If all that is true, then that means anyone with one of these closed-network pagers got it from being involved with Hezbollah in the first place.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
Oh wow, that’s quite… something.
alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yep, all the electrical engineers who have chimed in say it looks more like explosives.
A battery would get hot and start a fire. It wouldn’t instantly explode like this.