Nine people were killed and nearly 3,000 wounded after thousands of pagers detonated across Lebanon, in an incident Hezbollah blamed on IsraelAnalysis: Hezbollah pager explosions, if caused by the Mossad, would be a big escalationHezbollah is known for using pagers to communicate because, unlike mobile phones, they can evade location-tracking and monitoring from Israeli intelligence.Yossi Melman, a co-author of Spies Against Armageddon, said “a lot of people in Hezbollah carried these pagers, not just top echelon commanders”. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/18/middle-east-crisis-live-hezbollah-pager-explosion-lebanon-irael-iran-latest-updates
Author : Jonathan Yerushalmy
Publish date : 2024-09-18 07:40:22
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