Summary of Experts Think Israel May Have Rigged 2,800 Pagers to Explode in Lebanon

Summary of Experts Think Israel May Have Rigged 2,800 Pagers to Explode in Lebanon

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Experts Think Israel May Have Rigged 2,800 Pagers to Explode in Lebanon
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Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty ImagesIsrael masterminded the coordinated attack that caused thousands of pagers across Lebanon to explode on Tuesday, injuring thousands in an operation targeting Hezbollah, according to The New York Times.Some American and other officials briefed on the operation told the newspaper that the pagers had been intercepted and tampered with before reaching Lebanon.A senior Lebanese security source told Reuters that Hezbollah had ordered 5,000 pagers from a Taiwan-based manufacturing firm called Gold Apollo. The company told reporters on Tuesday that the pagers had actually been made by a European company using the Gold Apollo brand.Read more at The Daily Beast.

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The article reports on a coordinated attack in Lebanon that caused thousands of pagers to explode, injuring thousands and killing at least nine people. The attack is attributed to Israel, according to The New York Times and Lebanese officials. The pagers had been intercepted and tampered with before reaching Lebanon, and a tiny amount of explosive material and a switch were placed in each pager. The explosions went undetected by Hezbollah for months before being remotely detonated.