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The pagers produced for Hezbollah had batteries that integrated 3 grams (0.11 ounces) of the explosive PETN in such a way that it would have been extremely difficult to detect. [67] Sky News quoted Lebanese security officials saying that Hezbollah had ordered 5,000 devices. [68]
Pagers pre-date mobile phones, having been widely used in the 1980s and 1990s. They are a one-way communications device, allowing people to send a short message via radio signal to the pager ...
This goal was added to the two existing objectives: dismantling Hamas and securing the release of hostages taken during the 7 October attacks. [37] [38] On 17 and 18 September 2024, thousands of handheld pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in a coordinated series of attacks. [39]
A sharp escalation in border warfare between the Iran-backed Hezbollah group and Israel, raising fears of a new Israeli ground offensive in Lebanon, is the latest episode in decades of conflict ...
The conflict between U.S.-backed Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah could reach unprecedented levels of danger and destruction if it becomes all-out war.
On 11 April 1996, Israel initiated Operation Grapes of Wrath, known in Lebanon as the April War, which repeated the pattern of Operation Accountability., [54] which was triggered by Hezbollah Katyusha rockets fired into Israel in response to the killing of two Lebanese by an IDF missile, and the killing of Lebanese boy by a road-side bomb.
Device blasts leave a global trail. While Lebanon was left to confront the aftermath of the device attacks, officials from Asia to Europe probed how they made their way into the hands of Hezbollah.
Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]