Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 days agoGiven 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?
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.