Lebanon: Hundreds of Hezbollah Terrorists Injured as Pagers Explode in an Apparent Coordinated Strike
A Hezbollah spokesman describes the incident as the “biggest security breach” since the terrorist group intensified attacks on Israel in the wake of October 7 massacre.
In what appears to be a coordinated strike, at least eight terrorists were reported killed and nearly 3000 injured after Hezbollah-linked communication devices exploded across Lebanon. “Lebanon’s health minister, Firas Abiad, said at least eight people were killed and 2,750 wounded — 200 of them critically,” the Associated Press reported Tuesday afternoon.
Video clips and pictures on social media show Hezbollah terrorists suffering serious wounds from detonating beepers that the Shia-jihadist group had been using to run its nationwide communications operation.
Some terrorists appear to have died at the scene, graphic social media posts indicate. Many terrorists carried their pagers in hip pockets or close to their bodies thereby suffering fatal wounds, posts suggest.
The pagers attack in Lebanon; where huge numbers of Hezbollah fighters have been injured when their pagers exploded after receiving a message is among the craziest things I have seen in this new generation of warfare.
Reportedly, the Israeli intelligence send a message to the… pic.twitter.com/Hgt0eYauY5
— ScharoMaroof (@ScharoMaroof) September 17, 2024
The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon was also reportedly injured in the apparent strike. It is unclear why Iran’s envoy was using communication devices issued by the Hezbollah terrorist group. “Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was reportedly among those who were injured on Tuesday by the explosions,” The Guardian newspaper reported.
The beepers in question appear to have been purchased recently by the terrorist group. “A Hezbollah official who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that the new brand of handheld pagers used by the group first heated up, then exploded, killing at least two of its members and wounding others.” the AP News disclosed.
— Khaled Hassan (@Khaledhzakariah) September 17, 2024
A Hezbollah spokesman described the incident as the “biggest security breach” since the terrorist group intensified attacks on Israel in the wake of the October 7 massacre.
Breaking: Lebanese and other sources are reporting that Israel has attacked Hezbollah’s communications devices (beepers) in its government quarter in Beirut. Similar reports are coming in from Damascus, Syria. At the same time Israel has hit strategic targets in northeast… pic.twitter.com/ysmiCfR7as
— Marc Zell (@GOPIsrael) September 17, 2024
Reuters covered the details of the large-scale security breach:
More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, security sources told Reuters.
A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation of the pagers was the “biggest security breach” the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of war with Israel.
Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the Gaza war erupted last October, the worst such escalation in years.
The Israeli military declined to comment on Reuters enquiries about the detonations.
Iran’s Mehr news agency said the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was injured by one of the blasts. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.
A Reuters journalist saw ambulances rushing through the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, amid widespread panic. A security source said that devices were also exploding in the south of Lebanon.
At Mt. Lebanon hospital, a Reuters reporter saw motorcycles rushing to the emergency room, where people with their hands bloodied were screaming in pain.
The head of the Nabatieh public hospital in the south of the country, Hassan Wazni, told Reuters that around 40 wounded people were being treated at his facility. The wounds included injuries to the face, eyes and limbs.
The wave of explosions lasted around an hour after the initial detonations, which took place about 3:45 p.m. local time (1345 GMT). It was not immediately clear how the devices were detonated.
The pagers are generally kept in their pockets.
This means Israel is literally blowing off Hezbollah testicles all across Lebanon today. Hundreds of them.
Well deserved.
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) September 17, 2024
While Hezbollah pointed fingers at Jerusalem, the Israeli authorities did not comment on the mysterious strike that appears to have crippled the activities of the Lebanon-based terrorist group. “The communication devices detonated allegedly after being hacked by Israel,” The Times of Israel reported. “There is no comment from Israel on the incident.”
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Hezbollah has released a second statement in the aftermath of the pager explosion operation.
“After examining all the facts, data, and information regarding the sinful attack that occurred this afternoon, we hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal…
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 17, 2024
Mysterious strike cripples Hezbollah communications as terror group threatens Israel with war
The coordinated strike cripples Hezbollah’s command and control structure as the Iran-sponsored terrorist group threatens to go to war with Israel.
Pager, a communication devices from the 1990s, was Hezbollah’s attempt to keep Israel from hacking or disrupting its network. “Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah previously warned the group’s members not to carry cellphones, saying that they could be used by Israel to track their movements and to carry out targeted strikes,” the AP News noted Tuesday.
Well that didn't age well#hezbollah pic.twitter.com/FFfdUf7glc
— Asher Fredman אשר פרדמן (@fredman_a) September 17, 2024
Hezbollah launches more drone strikes on northern Israel
The incident took place as Hezbollah continued to launch cross-border rocket and drone attacks on northern Israeli towns and cities.
“Following the sirens that sounded over the past hour in the Upper Galilee Area regarding hostile aircraft infiltrations, a number of UAVs were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory. Some of the UAVs were intercepted and some fell in an area adjacent to Ramot Naftali. No injuries were reported,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a press release Tuesday. “Sirens regarding rocket and missile launches were activated due to the possibility of falling shrapnel from the interception.”
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rejoice!!!!
Brilliant move, a lot of these guys will sooner or later find that they cannot accommodate those 1400 year old virgins. Do not mess with Jews and then carry a pager in your pocket !!!
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I want to learn more about the oct 7 day that we hezzies love to celebrate
siri
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This was more effective than work place accidents.
BTW
this article should be top front and center on the site
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I’m seeing speculation that the pagers were first sent a message so the terrorist would check the message and be holding the pager close to their face and chest when the command to detonate was sent a few seconds later.
Unconfirmed, but plausible.
yeah
the message stated:
if you are reading this
you are too close
The message stated:
Boom!
And then it did.
There’s a meme making the r rounds of a pager displaying the message “Your 72 virgins are waiting.”
There’s a ton of videos, and it does look like they received a message a good 3-5 seconds before they blow. Not sure if that was intentional or not, but it does look like the sequence.
I saw that in a few videos
I suspect this was just a side effect of the detonation trigger. The Israelis sent the trigger message to the pager, which showed up like a normal message and buzzed the pager. We see some people on video (at other sites) glance at their pager to see what it was saying, then about 1.5 second later, which is about what it would take for the battery to heat up enough after receiving the trigger, boom.
Would it be wrong to say that this is the best feel-good story of the day?
And this is why I never answer spam calls!
The theory of making the lithium batteries explode via remotely-directed power surge is pretty comical. More like a small RDX or HMX charge was remotely-directed.
Yes, but the lithium battery explanation has the advantage of feeding paranoia. And it corresponds to the EV fire thing and other phone explosions in the news, so it sounds plausible – at least for the Mossad.
For some reason I keep thinking about Project Eldest Son.
I believe Hezbollah added a self-destruct option to their pagers in case they got caught. They never realized that it might be used against them.
I’m not a chemist, but in all the lithium battery events I’ve seen on video, any explosion (there isn’t always one) is always followed by a pretty scary fire. These don’t burn. I suspect the Israelis intercepted the latest shipment of pagers and rigged them all with plastics.
That’s one of the downsides of insisting on living sixth-century lives — you have to obtain all your technology from untrusted sources.
I’ll be fascinated to hear what subject-matter experts think. I’m skeptical this was some kind of “Halt & Catch Fire’ command because lithium battery failure simply isn’t this predictable. While you could probably make it fail with code, you almost certainly could guarantee it would explode. It’s just as likely it starts burning (which would still be bad). Plastic explosive seems far more likely.
Meant to say: ‘…almost certainly could NOT guarantee it would explode….’
Looks to me like they had explosives in them, no way a battery that size goes off like that without explosives.
Now, they may have been able to remotely overload the battery which triggered the explosives, if they made the battery heat up enough to trigger them that’s certainly doable.
9 “@Breaking911 — 22m
HOW DID MOSSAD SIMULTANEOUSLY BLOW UP 4,000 HEZBOLLAH PAGERS? The pagers were imported five months ago and contained up to 20 grams of explosives. Sky News Arabia reports that Mossad allegedly planted PETN on the pager batteries, detonating them by increasing the temperature.”
Sky News is reporting the devices were implanted with 20 grams of PETN. Their reporting is also claiming code was distributed or installed to make the battery temp rise when triggered. This statement makes me question the veracity of their entire report. PETN is generally pretty stable even at high temp. Like most plastic explosives, it won’t explode due to heat…or even an open flame. Instead, you either need a primary explosive (like a blasting cap) or a reasonably-sized spark of some kind (this is the one advantage of PETN over many other plastics) I guess it’s possible that the pager could have been wired to produce some kind of spark on command.
What no one has caught onto is that the Mossad likely put a non lethal radioactive marker in the explosive, so these guys will show up for months as “glowies”
Follow the glowies, find the hostages.
Hisballah is in the north. The hostages are in Gaza which is in the south.
Possibly true. C4 requires heat and shock to detonate, which is why we burned small pieces of C4 to heat our C-rats, always taking care to allow it to burn out rather than stamping it out. Not sure about PETN.
That’s not plausible given how many devices were involved.
Also from watching a number of videos of the devices going off the explosions look somewhat too small for any kind of explosives to have been involved??? Looks more like the kind of ring you’d expect from a battery exploding 🤣🤣
You can’t fit a whole lot of explosives into a pager. They’re a pretty minimalist design.
Just heard the devices are all new, having been procured in the last few months.
So they could very well have been tampered with by teh jUicEs because Lord knows they are crafty sons of bitches! 🤣
So now the internal witch hunt begins to find who purchased the pagers and where they got them from.
I suspect Abdul was made a pretty dammed tempting offer for a ton of pages, which he then sold to Hezbollah at an inflated price and now he’s finding out just why they were so god damned cheap 🤣
PETN is highly energetic.
And when that charge ruptured the battery, it added fuel to the bang.
Latest speculation is that Israel interrupted the supply chain & inserted a small amount of PETN.
So, the real question is not “How did they get them to detonate?” but “How did they make them ‘splodey in the first place?”
I’m gonna say they learned how to overheat the battery.
But probably they just packed them with a little explosive before they allowed them to be shipped on to the bad guys.
And this attack has great follow-on effects: how can they trust ANY electronic device they’ve acquired in the last few years? They might have to throw out EVERYTHING and buy new stuff, Which, of course, is vulnerable somewhere in the supply chain….
That’s similar to the evil idea I’ve advocated for years: when you release a bunch of Palestinians from prison, you put each of them under anesthetic and give them a small abdominal cut and stitch it back up. Then you let slip a rumor that Israel is now implanting trackers in each of the released prisoners. All you have to do is track ONE of them and blow him up (along with some leaders) to make every single one of them suspect now.
Dubious on the lithium battery if this is 90s technology.
Likely
0) was made aware of “need” for low tech comms
1) got a hold of low tech comms and sent them into the black market place
2) messed with firm ware to juice a pin if a certain callback number were entered
3) added small amount of C4 on that pin
4) reached out and touched someone’s wobbly bits with special callback number.
0) The special call back number will ask if you want to buy an extended warranty for your pager.
I believe your theory is the most plausible. Pretty easy to carry out; just buy a gross of pagers from China and “modify them” as you say.
Worth the investment to have a batch of special chips made since you’re getting (literally) so much bang for your buck.
Repackage them and make a contact with a Hezbollah buyer and give him a great price if he buys the whole gross. Might even spin a yarn about some special encryption protocol making them harder to intercept so that they’re quickly and widely disseminated. to the troops.
One of the interesting quirks of human psychology is that everybody loves getting shiny new tech as a status symbol… meaning that the higher up the food chain you are, the more likely you are to get one of these….
meaning that the higher up the food chain you are, the more likely you are to get one of these….
Like, the ambassador from Iran? /smirks/
Thought about it more, a hobbyist could even do this with an arduino inserted to read the number.
Haven’t watched the videos, but the desired explosion you want is an M80 in magnitude, and if you physically have the device opened up, you would insert it as a package.
Using microcode to overheat a battery has too much variability – and many would just smolder.
“One of the interesting quirks of human psychology is that everybody loves getting shiny new tech as a status symbol”
Not everybody. I’m more than happy to have an older phone/computer and use it until it won’t work.
Luckily, the bulk pager shipment was already covered by AbdulCare.
Pagers are 90s tech, but that wouldn’t prevent someone from manufacturing them with lithium batteries. Indeed, it may be easier to source lithium batteries for small electronic devices than other types of batteries.
C4 requires heat and shock to detonate. Merely heating it will cause it to burn. You’d still need an initiator (like PETN) to provide the shock. But going straight to an explosive that only requires heat would do the trick. But not convinced that the batteries were used to heat the explosives to detonation. A squib or blasting cap could be electrically detonated by sending a code to the device that energizes the cap’s circuit. Blasting caps are capable of creating the explosions I’ve seen in the videos.
All released terrorists should either have implants or otherwise receive treatment with a early expatriation date.
How many “Made in China” devices and components that we’ve imported have been similarly “customized”?
Stutnex 2.2
stuxnet…duh!
That, too!
This takes Israel’s ‘Wrath of God’ operation that it began hours after the Munich massacre, to an entirely different level.
Best story ever, but at the same time I am wondering if I should take my cell phone out of my hip pocket…
Think about the ubiquity of battery-powered, internet connected devices on our bodies today: Phones, watches, earbuds….even eyewear and medical devices, some of which are implanted. Sure, the batteries in earbuds and eyeglasses are very small. But, do you want a ‘small’ explosion immediately adjacent to your ear or eye or heart? If Israel did really do this only with malicious code, they’ve changed the world in a very, very bad way.
I suspect the IDF got their hands on these pagers before Hezbollah did, and likely there are many more in Lebanon, but only Hezbollah’s exploded.
The Israelis and others have been blowing the sides of heads off with detonated cell phones for quite a few years. This is just a variation on a theme.
I carry mine in a belt carrier. I’d get a crude form of an appendectomy and a hip replacement at the same time.
Nah. It could never happen in the USA. Our government wouldn’t allow it.
Unless the government wanted to silence those nasty people that oppose it. Then anything is legal.
Subotai Bahadur
😆😆😆
I love your sense of humor!
Sounds like an EMP weapon. Interesting.
I recall an episode of a whodunnit TV show, or maybe it was some old low-budget black and white spy movie. Some Bad Guys somehow got access to phones used by Those They Wanted To Kill.
Then, a phone call was made, and somehow the device in the phone was triggered. This caused a needle to come out of the earpiece and put curare into the ear of The One They Wanted To Kill.
Sounds like low-end campy — Man from UNCLE, perhaps, or even Get Smart.
Mission Impossible? (Or, as Mad Magazine called it, Mission Ridiculous).
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No, no. It goes way back. I recall that it was in black and white, and took place someplace in London. It might have even been an episode of that old police drama that was called Dial 999.
That show had a great theme song, slightly jazzy with a harmonica solo. I think the harmonica player was a chap named Max Geldray.
Just wait until Israel activates the exploding goat sphincters!
What a problem: How are they going to communicate with Columbia U. faculty and administration?
Speaking of, has anybody checked NYC hospitals?
Beautiful, gut wounds are terribly painful and will lead to a slow agonizing death. I can think of no better end for these vile scum.
I’m thinking many of these are slightly below what we would call “gut level.”
🙂
Operation Nutcracker has been a success!
Does “circumcision by pager” make the recipient of the operation no longer Muslim? 😉
Subotai Bahadur
heres how it went down:
whats the frequency abdul?
I guess Israel really Sent a Message with this one.
Beautiful.
It’s a scorching hot take (one of the tweets posted) to call weaponized PAGERS a part of the new generation of warfare.
Only backwater terrorists like these carry those outdated devices.
What was smart is actually that they seem to have used the supply chain to covertly insert exploding lithium batteries rather than wire a detonator to the radio signal or vibrate function of the pager.
Outdated? They’re a fantastic way to not be tracked and still be able to be contacted.
Unless, of course, you got a “Special deal,
JoeAbdul! Jus’ for you!”Yes, it is low tech which is why the allah ackbars are also using a 200 year old landline system from what I read on another site.
My point was that I wouldn’t call it new generation of warfare. Hezbollah went old school so Israel did as well…..game, set, hopefully the match comes soon.
Ya know, now that I think about it, there’s been these ads for hearing aids on LI for some time, now….
It is completely clear why Iran’s envoy was using communication devices issued by the Hezbollah terrorist group.
There should be follow-up on everyone who had an exploding pager. Also a close look at all their known associates. Do the best job possible.
It sounds like the equivalent of the IBM 7090’s HCF (halt and catch fire) command, available only in assembler.
Assuming no physical access, it’s probably a microcode mistake that can enable simultaneous high loading of the battery in various ways. It’s just a matter of figuring out how to hack it into happening.
May those who love us, love us.
And those that don’t love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn’t turn their hearts,
May he blow up their pagers,
So we’ll know them by their limping.
And dont forget Hezzies
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Ugh, was meant to be on the general thread, not in reply to anyone
I hope that they are conducting follow-up operations.
I’m no authority on anything military, but I do understand the concept of taking the initiative and maintaining pressure on one’s enemy.
I would hope that these wounded hizb’allah fighters/leaders should be pursued by commandos — within Lebanon or from Israel or both.
And killed or removed to a safe locale for interrogation.
Surely, there must be several IRGC folks as well amongst today’s wounded…… who could prolly provide useful info about a number of things — eg, IRGC names and goings-on back in Iran.
A bit of comic relief in a dour world!
Any dead children, assorted civilians, etc… just another blood price to pay for peace in the middle east?
It is highly unlikely [as in close to not possible] that children, assorted civilians, etc. would be carrying a Hezbollah-issued and encoded pager. Those who had them, were issued them [and I include the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon in that]. These things were not given out in the local equivalent of Cracker Jack boxes. That is why the entire operation was so wonderfully and precisely targeted.
Subotai Bahadur
Hezbollah’s statement said that they bought pagers from “a new outfit”.
“Welcome to Mossad’s, how can we help you today?!?”
This thread has made my day.
Husband wondered if when the head terrorist was cutting a deal for the corporate pagers, didn’t he notice the guy he was dealing with was wearing a yarmulka? Like he went to Crazy Eddie’s. “They run a little hot, but you can’t be the price.”
I wonder if they’ll receive a credit for the rest of this month?
I was thinking of commenting that this mission really took balls. But then I realized that would be grasping at low-hanging fruit.
:-{)}}}
How many balls were roasted by pagers still in a pocket?
Babylon Bee:
Rashida Tlaib Uninjured After Her Pager Mysteriously Explodes
One of those pagers would probably improved her appearance.
“Cant pull a trigger with no hands” Starship Troopers, probably.
lol. “Sergeant, why do we need knives anyways”.
I thought to myself “boy is this about to go south”
Mum’s the word with Israel and operations like this, as it should be. But I really hope that one day the story of how they pulled this off comes out. An absolutely sly, imaginative, and badass operation.
This is epic, devious, brilliant. And now they can identify terrorists by unique injuries for further remedial action.
This would be more effective if there was mercury in the charge.
As someone on X pointed out, this is a massive intel collecting operation. Each of those with an exploding pager will be named in hospital records or obituaries, and from those names Mossad will be able to reconstruct outwards to contacts, family, etc. And then to contacts of contacts . . .
WOW!