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Nine people, including a child, have been killed after handheld pagers used by members of the armed group Hezbollah to communicate exploded across Lebanon, the country’s health minister says.

Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon was among 2,800 other people who were wounded by the simultaneous blasts in Beirut and several other regions.

Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, said the pagers belonged “to employees of various Hezbollah units and institutions” and that at least two members were among the dead.

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[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 days ago

Soooooo, Israel passed out pagers loaded with explosives? And people used them?

[-] workerONE@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

I think they've hacked the network and are executing code that overheats the battery and makes it explode

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

According to the article:

But a former British Army munitions expert, who asked not to be named, told the BBC the pagers would have likely been packed with between 10g and 20g of military-grade high explosive, hidden inside a fake electronic component.

I don't know what the actual truth of the situation is, but something's fucky. I can't imagine how Israel could plant explosives in those pagers. And overheating batteries would burst into flames rather than literally explode, so that would probably be mentioned somewhere.

Israel's doing lots of fucked up shit lately, but I can't see how this one would be their fault.

[-] dlatch@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Supply chains are vulnerable as hell. There's photos of NSA agents installing backdoors in Cisco network equipment during the shipping to the customer. There's no proof and it will probably take many years before we hear anything conclusive, but it is without a doubt within the capabilities of Israel or one of their allies intelligence agencies to intercept a shipment of pagers and install explosives in them.

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