Mysterious pager blasts in Lebanon kill 9, injure thousands.
Thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria, killing 9 people and injuring around 3,000 others.
The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, known to engage in border skirmishes with Israel, is reported to rely on pagers to evade surveillance.
Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the attacks but Jerusalem is yet to comment. Defense analysts say manipulating pager frequencies remotely could trigger explosives.
Remote detonation using radio signals is possible given electronic warfare advances. Mobile phones have been used in conflict zones as improvised explosive devices.
Hezbollah employs encrypted communication networks including civilian infrastructure, fiber optics, and radio systems. Its systems have evolved since the 1980s to counter Israeli tracking.
Experts say Mossad and Israel’s military have sophisticated cyber capabilities to hack infrastructure or implant malware in devices for control. intelligence may have introduced modified pagers, with surveillance identifying Hezbollah-linked communication patterns and targets.
The coordinated blasts indicate specific pagers rather than random detonation, based on leadership/operations intelligence for an operation of this scale.
While the exact sequence remains unclear, the attacks underscore the use of technology for modern asymmetric warfare.
