Hezbollah pagers explode all over Lebanon injuring 1000s

[Muse]

All Lebanese citizens who own pagers were asked to throw them away immediately.​

Thousands injured, several dead after pagers explode across Lebanon: Health officials

Pager devices "exploded in the hands of their owners in a number of Lebanese regions" on Tuesday, according to Hezbollah-owned Lebanese media outlet Al-Ahed News.

abcnews.go.com

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-pagers-explosions-intl/index.html

 

[Jaskalas]

Iphones are cheaper than blown off bits....

 

[Oyeve]

Just saw this. Crazy. Are all our devices ticking bombs now?

 

[Jaskalas]

Just saw this. Crazy. Are all our devices ticking bombs now?

It's a safe bet that Israel managed to sneak into the supply chain for the opposing army.
And as they are actively engaged in repeated rounds of bombings against each other....

 

[Indus]

Just saw this. Crazy. Are all our devices ticking bombs now?

There's a reason dumbphones are a thing.

 

[Jaskalas]

There's a reason dumbphones are a thing.

Wouldn't these pagers be a chief example of a dumb device, likely used due to being cheap?

 

[fskimospy]

Wouldn't these pagers be a chief example of a dumb device, likely used due to being cheap?

Pagers are receive only so they do not emit a signal that can be tracked.

 

[nakedfrog]

Pagers are receive only so they do not emit a signal that can be tracked.

I remember two way pagers being a thing, dunno what kind are in vogue over there.

 

[Pens1566]

Nifty tradecraft.

 

[Jaskalas]

Pagers are receive only so they do not emit a signal that can be tracked.

Ah, military opsec. Got it.
A device even dumber than dumb, it's nearly a rock. An exploding rock....

 

[repoman0]

More cruelty and indiscriminate offensive attacks with no regard for civilians coming out of Israel, what a surprise. Kids dead and thousands maimed for life. Israel is one of the shittiest countries on the planet right now.

 

[Paratus]

Commercial lithium Ion batteries do not explode like this. Pressure does build up until the battery case ruptures releasing gas, smoke, and starting to burn. There was something explosive in those pagers.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Just found out one of my employees has multiple family members injured and the poor guy is completely distraught. Just sickening at this point.

Nearly 3000 injured it’s saying? What the actual fuck.

 

[K1052]

Pagers are receive only so they do not emit a signal that can be tracked.

Yeah this is the whole reason Hezbollah uses them heavily and certainly why they are targeted. I don't think paging systems are really used much by the general population anymore since cell phones are cheap and everywhere.

 

[Stokely]

That is crazy...like a plot from a Naked Gun movie or something.

Do you reckon there were explosives snuck into those? From things I've read, newer batteries shouldn't explode, they might catch fire but exploding to the point of hundreds of people critically injured?

 

[iRONic]

Mossad decided that the time was right. Ugh…

 

[WelshBloke]

Wouldn't these pagers be a chief example of a dumb device, likely used due to being cheap?

Well these had added military grade high explosives and detonation circuitry so probably not that cheap!

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Commercial lithium Ion batteries do not explode like this. Pressure does build up until the battery case ruptures releasing gas, smoke, and starting to burn. There was something explosive in those pagers.

Might have had a small charge of c4 or something attached to one of a series of multichannel pages, signal the whole mess at once and they all pop.

 

[UNCjigga]

Yallah sadiqi! Step on up to Moshe’s Mega Mart! We got the hottest deals on pagers right now, latest model! Buy 2000, get 1000 FREE!!! Free shipping too, EVEN INTERNATIONAL!!!

Our prices so low, IT’LL BLOW YOUR MIND!!! This deal so good, IT’LL KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF!!! So come on down to Moshe’s Mega Mart and I promise YOU’LL HAVE A BLAST!!

*Limited time offer…don’t delay!!! THE CLOCK IS TICKING!!!

 

[manly]

That is crazy...like a plot from a Naked Gun movie or something.

Do you reckon there were explosives snuck into those? From things I've read, newer batteries shouldn't explode, they might catch fire but exploding to the point of hundreds of people critically injured?

Hundreds of devices exploding simultaneously, what do you think?

Yallah sadiqi! Step on up to Moshe’s Mega Mart! We got the hottest deals on pagers right now, latest model! Buy 2000, get 1000 FREE!!! Free shipping too, EVEN INTERNATIONAL!!!

Our prices so low, IT’LL BLOW YOUR MIND!!! This deal so good, IT’LL KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF!!! So come on down to Moshe’s Mega Mart and I promise YOU’LL HAVE A BLAST!!

*Limited time offer…don’t delay!!! THE CLOCK IS TICKING!!!

Just not a joking matter when some civilians are maimed.

 

[WelshBloke]

Might have had a small charge of c4 or something attached to one of a series of multichannel pages, signal the whole mess at once and they all pop.

10 to 20 grams of HE. Apparently primed with a numeric code then exploded on the next use.
Definitely Israel. Pretty impressive to keep it covered up and slide them into the supply chain and get them to the people they wanted.

 

[kage69]

Pretty impressive to infiltrate your enemy's supply chain and individual load outs like that. Probably took a lot of prep and time to do it without raising any suspicion, and Mossad/Shin Bet have had this card in their pocket for awhile now.

I get the impression something noteworthy is about to happen, or was prevented from happening.

 

[WelshBloke]

Pretty impressive to infiltrate your enemy's supply chain and individual load outs like that. Probably took a lot of prep and time to do it without raising any suspicion, and Mossad/Shin Bet have had this card in their pocket for awhile now.

I get the impression something noteworthy is about to happen, or was prevented from happening.

One of the reasons they were using pagers is that they'd already been targeted with exploding mobile phone! (Plus pagers are harder to track)

 

[allisolm]

Not knowing anything about the interior technical specs of various electronic devices and how difficult or easy it would be to alter them, and knowing that someone managed to succeed with nearly 3000 pagers, the whole thing makes me a bit nervous.

 

[RnR_au]

Nifty tradecraft.

Indeed... its almost as if the British lent Q to the Israelis.

Even Iran's ambassador to Lebanon got wounded by his pager.