Israel carried out Tuesday’s attack on Hezbollah pagers in Lebanon after discovering that two members of the Shiite militia began to suspect that these devices had been manipulated, as confirmed to the media by regional Israeli intelligence sources. To the monitorThe attack resulted in the deaths of 12 people, including two children, and thousands of injuries, but the Jewish state remains silent on the matter.
Suspicions of the Shiite militia party pushed Israel to take this decision hastily since his intention was to blow up the internal communication devices when he made it a major attack on Lebanon. According to the media AxiosIsrael planned to completely damage the capabilities of Hezbollah, a major player in the Middle East that receives support from Iran, with which it has maintained tensions for nearly a year due to the war in Gaza.
But it is a risky move because it raises the possibility of another full-scale war in the Middle East between the Iran-backed group and its arch-enemy, Israel. In addition to being hasty, the detonation of thousands of pagers, the number of which fluctuates between 3,000 and 5,000 devices, left a mysterious trace from Taiwan to Hungary.
Initial investigations suggest that before their arrival in Lebanon in the spring, Between 28 and 56 grams of explosives were allegedly inserted inside accompanied by a detonator to detonate them remotely via SMS. Yago Rodriguez, director of “La Salle Politique”, told LaSexta that “they obviously had access to the devices.”Some report that they became hot before exploding.“I think they used something explosive to cause an explosion of some power in the lithium battery,” he said.
Israel admitted him to the United States
The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, which has a long history of carrying out sophisticated attacks on foreign soil, placed explosives in pagers imported by Hezbollah a few months ago, Lebanese security sources told Reuters. The operation constitutes an unprecedented attack on Hezbollah’s security in which thousands of pagers exploded across Lebanon, killing 12 people, including two children, and wounding nearly 3,000 people, including many of the group’s fighters and the Iranian ambassador to Beirut.
Similarly, Lebanese security sources claimed that the pagers came from Gold Apollo, a Taiwan-based company, but the company denied that this was the case. In a statement, it maintained that it did not manufacture the devices, but that they were manufactured by a company called BAC, based in the Hungarian capitalwho is authorized to use its trademark.
Despite his silence, Associated Pressciting a U.S. official, reported that as soon as the explosions in Lebanon ended, Israel admitted in the United States, his paternityThe operation, according to several media outlets, was organized months ago by the Mossad and the Israeli army. Hezbollah has already announced that it will not remain silent and its secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, is expected to deliver a speech this Thursday in response to the attacks.
