{"id":115867,"date":"2024-09-18T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=115867"},"modified":"2024-09-18T12:01:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:01:21","slug":"22-00-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=115867","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Cyber Expert: Explosives Planted in Hezbollah Pagers in Op Planned Months Before War"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Israeli Cyber Expert: Explosives Planted in Hezbollah Pagers in Op Planned Months Before War<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Debbie Weiss<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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An ambulance arrives at a hospital as thousands of people, mainly Hezbollah fighters, were wounded on Sept. 17, 2024 when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon. Photo: REUTERS\/Mohamed Azakir<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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An Israeli cyber and national security expert has claimed that the\u00a0exploding pagers carried by Hezbollah members<\/a>\u00a0in Lebanon, which left thousands wounded and killed at least nine people on Tuesday, were part of a sophisticated attack that was planned at least half a year before the war in Gaza erupted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Eyal Pinko, a former navy commander and senior research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, dismissed theories that the blasts were caused by lithium batteries that were hacked to become overheated, and said that the nature of the wounds seen in footage emerging from Lebanon was consistent with those caused by explosives such as TNT and HTB.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo get this kind of wound you need to have between one to two grams of type of explosives, which is not a big technological issue \u2014 you just need to open the beeper,\u201d Pinko said during a briefing with reporters on Tuesday evening. He added that a stable explosive that wouldn\u2019t detonate accidentally would have been inserted into the device, along with a small control mechanism capable of receiving remote commands via a call or page.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such an operation would have required significant infiltration of Hezbollah\u2019s communication systems, according to Pinko, and planting explosives in pagers would necessitate a serious breach of the supply chain. \u201cThis is an intelligence operation that was very well planned, prepared for more than one and a half years,\u201d Pinko said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pinko alluded to the possibility of a coordinated effort, suggesting that Israel may not have acted alone if it was behind the\u00a0attack in Lebanon<\/a>, where Hezbollah wields significant political and military clout. He noted efforts by Germany, France, the US, and the UK to prevent escalation in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel has so far been quiet about the explosions, but senior Lebanese officials have blame the Jewish state. So too has Hezbollah, which said Israel would receive \u201cits fair punishment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The operation clearly appeared to serve as a message to Hezbollah, showcasing vulnerabilities in its security apparatus and serving as a form of deterrence, Pinko said. \u201cIt\u2019s saying that, \u2018you\u2019re already being penetrated. We know where you are and what you do. Now look what we can do: In one single shot, in less than a second, we can eliminate almost 3,000 terror operatives.’\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sky News Arabia quoted an Israeli military source as saying that Hezbollah\u2019s supply chain was infiltrated with the Mossad, Israel\u2019s intelligence agency, placing PETN, a highly explosive stable material, on the batteries of the devices.<\/span><\/p>\n

A source close to Hezbollah, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that the pagers were \u201csabotaged at the source\u201d before being imported by Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terrorist organization based in Lebanon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Al Jazeera said that the pagers had been in use by Hezbollah operatives for five months.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brigadier General (res) Amir Avivi, founder of the Israel Defense and Security Forum (IDSF), told\u00a0The Algemeiner<\/em>\u00a0that the attack \u201chad the Mossad\u2019s fingerprints all over it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHezbollah certainly got the message,\u201d Avivi said, adding that war between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group was \u201cimminent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, Pinko said that Tuesday\u2019s coordinated attacks were not a prelude to a full ground invasion into Lebanon and that Israel was likely to adopt a \u201cwait and see\u201d approach. \u201cIsrael doesn\u2019t want to go towards further escalation; not in the north, and not with the Houthis in Yemen. They just want to finish the business in Gaza.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The explosions came hours after a revelation by the Israeli Shin Bet security agency that a Hezbollah cell had infiltrated Israel with the intent to assassinate a former senior defense official in Tel Aviv using a mobile phone, camera, and remote detonation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hezbollah has\u00a0fired barrages of rockets, missiles, and drones<\/a>\u00a0at northern Israel almost daily following the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists on the Jewish state\u2019s southern region. Since then, both sides have been exchanging fire constantly while avoiding a major escalation as war rages in Gaza to the south.<\/span><\/p>\n

About 80,000 Israelis have been forced to evacuate their homes in northern Israel and flee to other parts of the country amid the unrelenting attacks from Hezbollah.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli leaders have said they seek a diplomatic resolution to the conflict with Hezbollah along the border with Lebanon but are prepared to use large-scale military force if needed to ensure all citizens can safely return to their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Monday night, Israel\u2019s security cabinet\u00a0expanded its war goals<\/a>\u00a0to include returning the displaced Israelis from the north.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Israeli Cyber Expert: Explosives Planted in Hezbollah Pagers in Op Planned Months Before War Debbie Weiss An ambulance arrives at a hospital as thousands of people, mainly Hezbollah fighters, were wounded on Sept. 17, 2024 when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon. Photo: REUTERS\/Mohamed Azakir An Israeli cyber and national security expert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115883,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115867\/revisions\/115883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}