Icom said the radio used in the explosion was not carrying an anti-counterfeit hologram sticker that all Icom devices should be carrying. What kind of sabotage would cause these devices to explode? Tuesday’s explosions were most likely the result of supply-chain interference, several experts ...
A communication device on the ground as Lebanese army forces prepare to destroy it in a controlled explosion. September 19, 2024. (Photo: CFP) Thousands of handheld radios and pagers used by Hezbollah were detonated across Lebanon this week, killing dozens and wounding thousands. The attacks, ac...
Barely had the funerals of four people killed in pager explosions begun, the Sky News team in Beirut heard the sound of an explosion a short distance away, followed by shouts and screams.
How and with whose help the pager attack was carried out was not yet known, although so far there were possible leads in Taiwan, Hungary and Bulgaria. It is not clear how and when the pagers were weaponised so they could be remotely detonated. The same question remains for ...
At least one explosion struck Wednesday near a funeral being held by Hezbollah for some of the people killed the previous day by the pager blasts. A Reuters reporter in Beirut's southern suburbs, a stronghold of Hezbollah, said he saw people from families with Hezbollah members quickly removing...
The Hezbollah militant group said it is conducting a "security and scientific investigation" into the explosion of pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday. An ambulance carrying wounded people whose handheld pager exploded arrives outside at the American University hospital, in...
Iranian state-run IRNA news agency said that the country's ambassador, Mojtaba Amani, was superficially wounded by an exploding pager and was being treated at a hospital. Previously, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had warned the group's members not to carry cellphones, saying that they...
The afternoon blasts hit several Hezbollah strongholds across Lebanon, in the first such incident since the group began trading near-daily fire with Israel in support of ally Hamas. "Hundreds of Hezbollah members were injured by the simultaneous explosion of their pagers" in the group's strongholds...
It may be precisely the sort of miscalculation that leads to a widening of the conflict; the moment when Hezbollah determine Israel have dismissed them as a persistent threat will be the moment they feel compelled to act most violently. The pager blasts could speak of a war where one si...
David Kennedy, a former US National Security Agency intelligence analyst, told CNN the explosions seen in videos shared online appear to be “too large for this to be a remote and direct hack that would overload the pager and cause a lithium battery explosion.” ...