Hezbollah official calls it the group’s ‘biggest security breach’ in nearly a year of cross-border fire with Israel.
  • @Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
    4•3 months ago

    Given how targeted the attacks were at certain people, does this imply a bunch of people walking around with explosives in their pagers, where they weren’t set off because they weren’t one of the targets?

    • @dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21•3 months ago

      NYT says this switch to pagers has been recent, after the Oct 7 attacks last year, when Hezbollah suspected that Israel was spying on the cell network, and using it to locate targets for strikes. So all these pagers got distributed to Hezbollah-affiliated people in short order . This system doesn’t use commercial networks, and has been called a “closed” network by the NYT.

      If all that is true, then that means anyone with one of these closed-network pagers got it from being involved with Hezbollah in the first place.