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Iranian Ambassador Among 1,000+ Wounded After Israel Remotely Detonates Pagers www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hundreds-wounded-dead-beirut-after-israel-remotely-detonates-hezbollah-pagers

515 sats \ 12 comments \ @SimpleStacker 17 Sep news

This is crazy...

An apparent covert Mossad operation has unleashed chaos in a southern Beirut neighborhood on Tuesday, resulting in large-scale casualties among Hezbollah operatives and reportedly Lebanese civilians.

Telecommunications devices used by Hezbollah members began exploding, resulting in up to hundreds wounded in the suburb of Dahiyeh. There appears to be fatalities, according to graphic social media images.

Reuters reports, "Hundreds of members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, including fighters and medics, were seriously wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded," according to security sources. Al Jazeera has cited eyewitnesses who say there are over 400 victims at just one hospital.

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120 sats \ 2 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 17 Sep

Curious to see the details/more info if we ever get it. Like did they infiltrate the supply lines to add explosives components or a backdoor to cause this. Or is this similar to how the CIA used StuxNet to sabotage Irans Uranium Enrichment by introducing malware and controlling PLCs that told officials everything was functioning properly while it was actually failing. Essentially wonder if they simply found a way to make the non tampered pagers exploded by heating the battery or if they infiltrated the supply chain to create these IEDs. Either way it's a scary reality I suppose.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 17 Sep

Since these were all new pagers and since Hezbollah had told their members to stop carrying cell phones I think it was easily some one (you can fill in the blanks) added something to the pagers in the supply chain and so Hezbollah was SOL when they took the shipment.

I doubt it would be that hard to add some sort of software that could be signaled to trigger thermal runaway. We already have an issue with it in EVs and I want to say the Galexy Note 9 form years ago had the same issue.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 17 Sep

The most interesting part of this thing, indeed:

Telecommunications devices used by Hezbollah members began exploding

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 17 Sep

I remember the good old days of pagers, but I thought they were a relic of the past.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 17 Sep

I imagine they were being used by Hezbollah for security reasons (smaller attack surface compared to modern phones)

39 sats \ 0 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 17 Sep

Unsure if true, but the pagers may be Motorola, who's a large partner/contractor for Israel.

19 sats \ 0 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 17 Sep

32 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 17 Sep

So freakin wild! Turns out that this was a new brand of pager. Seems that thermal runaway was triggered in what I expect to be lithium-ion batteries. These are the same ones that EVs use and when thermal runaway occurs the fires/explosions triggered are extremely difficult to put out. A Tesla for example has to be submerged in water for 30 days before it is allowed out of the lake/pool they use.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 17 Sep

But how would they have triggered it all at once... it sounds like they probably inserted themselves into the manufacturing supply chain

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 17 Sep

So these were all new pagers according to Hezbollah so yeah the supply chain was intercepted and something was installed or implemented that when trigger would execute such an event!