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The senior Lebanese source said the devices had been modified by Israel’s spy service “at the production level.” Israeli officials did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
“The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code. It’s very hard to detect it through any means,” the source said.
The source said about 3,000 of the pagers exploded when a coded message was sent to them, simultaneously activating the explosives.
Another security source told Reuters that up to three grams of explosives were hidden in the new pagers and had gone “undetected” by Hezbollah for months.
In a televised speech on Feb. 13, the group’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah sternly warned supporters that their phones were more dangerous than Israeli spies, saying they should break, bury or lock them in an iron box.
Instead, Hezbollah opted to distribute pagers to its members across the group’s various branches - from fighters to medics working in its relief services.
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The senior Lebanese source said the devices had been modified by Israel’s spy service “at the production level.” Israeli officials did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
>“The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code. It’s very hard to detect it through any means,” the source said.
>The source said about 3,000 of the pagers exploded when a coded message was sent to them, simultaneously activating the explosives.
>Another security source told Reuters that up to three grams of explosives were hidden in the new pagers and had gone “undetected” by Hezbollah for months.
>In a televised speech on Feb. 13, the group’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah sternly warned supporters that their phones were more dangerous than Israeli spies, saying they should break, bury or lock them in an iron box.
>Instead, Hezbollah opted to distribute pagers to its members across the group’s various branches - from fighters to medics working in its relief services.
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