How #Israel Built a Modern-Day #Trojan Horse: #Exploding #Pagers

source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L04.G4Xt.1jV7wZiKtlr6

B.A.C. did take on ordinary clients, for which it produced a range of ordinary pagers. But the only client that really mattered was Hezbollah, and its pagers were far from ordinary. Produced separately, they contained batteries laced with the explosive #PETN, according to the three #intelligence officers.

#war #warfare #news #Lebanon #pager #supplychain #attack #mossad #Hezbollah

First legal view I’ve seen on the pager attacks:

“Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of law and international peace studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, said booby-traps are banned under international law. “Weaponizing an object used by civilians is strictly prohibited,” she said.”

https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah-syria-ce6af3c2e6de0a0dddfae48634278288

#Lebanon #Pagers #hezbollah #Israel

Second wave of explosions hits Lebanon a day after pager attack

Israel's defense minister declares a “new phase” of war as Hezbollah officials and Lebanon's state media say explosions went off in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon in an apparent second wave of detonations of electronic devices.

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The plot appears to have been many months in the making. It followed a series of assassinations of #Hezbollah & #Hamas commanders & leaders blamed on #Israel since the start of the #Gaza #war.

The snr Lebanese #security source said the group had ordered 5,000 #pagers from Gold Apollo, which were brought into the country earlier this year.

Gold Apollo founder Hsu Ching-Kuang said the pagers used in the explosion were made by a company in Europe that Gold Apollo named in a statement as BAC.

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 3 grams of explosives were hidden in the new #pagers & had gone "undetected" by #Hezbollah for months.

#Israel #Lebanon #Iran #Mossad #geopolitics

#Hezbollah exploding #pager trail runs from #Taiwan to #Hungary

A snr Lebanese #security source identified a photograph of the model of the pager, an AR-924.

The source said the #pagers had been modified by #Israel's spy service, #Mossad, "at the production level."

"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.”

#lebanon #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-explosives-hezbollahs-taiwan-made-pagers-say-sources-2024-09-18/

This is the Hungarian company BAC that Taiwan’s Gold Apollo says manufactured the pagers¹ used in yesterday’s terrorist attack by Israel (the original page was taken down):

https://archive.is/dXtMx

According to their projects page, they were/are also an expert evaluator for @EUCommission where they “Drafted various Evaluation Reports” and “Participated in Expert Meetings.”

https://archive.is/0NWKJ

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¹ https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/taiwans-gold-apollo-detonated-hezbollah-pagers-were-manufactured-by-hungarian-partner/

#BAC #pagers #terroristAttack #Israel #Lebanon #EU #EUCommission

🚨 Pagers Explode Across Lebanon In Targeted Attack

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