The attacks left nine dead and thousands injured, but how the blasts occurred remains unclear.
    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      2 months ago

      From the article:

      Why does Hezbollah use pagers?

      Hezbollah has relied heavily on pagers as a low-tech means of communications to try to evade location-tracking by Israel.

    • wildbus8979
      19·
      2 months ago

      They are still very common in hospital settings. Those things are reliable as fuck.

    • dudinax@programming.dev
      17·
      2 months ago

      BBC reported they switched to pagers after they realized Israel was using mobiles to target leaders for assassination.

    • Gerudo@lemm.ee
      10·
      2 months ago

      Pagers pierce walls way better than most tech. It’s why a lot of hospitals still use them.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        they’re also basically passive. a pair of AA’s could last a month or so, and, because they’re basically passive, you could pretty much receive them anywhere, including on planes.

        Physically, they’re also quite small, so they’d be more convenient to carry.

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Are you iphone dunking on middle eastern terrorist communications?

  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
    82·
    2 months ago

    It was a Mosaad. They admitted it. It wasn’t actually that difficult, it was just pretty clever, considering the level of technology involved.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
      11·
      2 months ago

      Judging from what I’ve seen so far from reports which are early and incomplete, I would eduguess that Mossad basically intercepted a particular brand of these ‘pagers’ known to be used by Hezbollah, put small bombs in them and wired them in such that they could be activated by a broadcast signal, and probably a lot of non Hezbollah people who just happened to buy this model of ‘pager’ in the target areas and timeframe for introduction of these tampered device onto the market also got an exploding hot pocket.