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I haven’t had the chance to watch the above vid (in a public place), but with some quick math, that’s (2040km in 11.5 minutes) over 6600mph so what the Hell kind’a stuff is coming out’a “Achmed’s Home Hardware & Missile Supply Store” or Iran, or Russia???
Hypersonic and seemingly un-targeted, or intercepted, or intentionally planted in the middle of nowhere?
So 2040km in 11.5 minutes makes this Mach 8-9? Something stinks.
An Israeli military official said the missile was hit by an interceptor and fragmented in the air, rather than being completely destroyed.
Air raid sirens had sounded in Tel Aviv and across central Israel moments before the impact at around 6:35 a.m. local time (0335 GMT), sending residents running for shelter. Loud booms were heard.
Missile pieces landed in fields and near a railway station. There were no direct casualties, but nine people were lightly hurt while seeking cover. Reuters saw smoke billowing in an open field in central Israel.
The Houthis have fired missiles and drones at Israel repeatedly in what they say is solidarity with the Palestinians, since the Gaza war began with a Hamas attack on Israel in October.
According to an Israeli Air Force probe, the Houthi missile was hit by an interceptor missile, although it did not manage to completely destroy the target.
The IAF found that the missile, which had a trajectory and did not maneuver in flight, was not a hypersonic projectile (????) as the Houthis have claimed. The intended target of the attack was not immediately known.
In a short televised speech, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree claimed responsibility for the ballistic missile attack.
Saree said a hypersonic missile was launched at an unspecified military target in the Tel Aviv area, boasting that the projectile eluded the gauntlet of American and Israeli aerial defense systems, and caused “fear and panic” (= terror objective from terrorists achieved) in Israel. “It forced more than two million Zionists to run to shelters for the first time in the enemy’s history,” he said. Zionists being used as an interchangeable term for Israelis obviously as it’s doubtful that he surveyed the same two million people on their political viewpoints.
Ballistic missile fired from Yemen triggers sirens across central Israel
Houthis say Tel Aviv targeted with hypersonic missile; IDF: projectile fell apart in air after being hit by interceptor; shrapnel lands in Ben Shemen forest, nearby train station
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Also on Sunday morning, approximately 40 projectiles crossed from Lebanon into Israel’s northern region, some of them intercepted and others falling in open areas, the IDF said. No injuries were reported, and authorities are putting out fires caused by the fallen projectiles.
Not just bullshit but steaming hot bullshit. If Iran had one Russia would have fired one at Kyiv ages ago.
It’s been a long day and I’ve just had a chance to watch that video above…
This above, I can believe, and they should expect targeted retaliation.
This…this at Mach 8-9, at least we know where this claim came from.
…to force concessions from Netanyahu…
Government challenge on UNRWA funding review case struck down
Author of the article:Bryan Passifiume
Published Sep 13, 2024 • Last updated 2 days ago • 2 minute read
OTTAWA — Efforts by the federal government to quash an ongoing court case seeking a judicial review of Canada’s funding of a contentious UN agency were struck down in court this week.
On Wednesday, Federal Court Justice Glennys McVeigh dismissed a challenge by the government, who claimed the court had no jurisdiction over the government’s decision to fund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA,) and that decisions to support international humanitarian causes are made solely by the executive authority of ministers of the Crown.
“There may well be an insufficient objective legal basis to challenge the decision, and it might not ultimately be amenable to judicial review,” Justice McVeigh wrote in her decision.
“However, it cannot be said that the Attorney General’s arguments clearly render the type of ‘show stopper’ or ‘knockout punch’ necessary to strike the application at this stage.”
Earlier this year, Canadian family members of victims of the Oct. 7 terror attacks filed suit against the federal government for their decision to resume funding UNRWA, despite mountains of evidence that employees of the agency took active roles in the deadly Hamas attacks that killed over 1,000 Israelis and saw hundreds other taken hostage into Gaza.
The families, supported by the Centre for Israeli and Jewish Affairs, allege that Hamas co-locates terrorist infrastructure within UNRWA facilities, and that UNRWA schools teach Palestinian children to hate and kill Jews.
Canada initially followed-suit with the U.S. State Department in their January decision to suspending funding UNRWA, after evidence of UNRWA’s culpability in the Oct. 7 terror attacks came to light,
Despite this evidence, the Trudeau Liberals reversed that decision in March, in time for Canada it make good on a $25 million funding pledge to UNRWA, part of a $100 million grant announced last June.
The plaintiffs in the suit were pleased with the decision.
“There’s no dispute that humanitarian aid is needed and must urgently reach the civilian population in Gaza, but UNRWA cannot be the agency to fulfill this responsibility,” said co-counsel Lawrence Greenspon.
“This is not an application to stop Canadian funding for humanitarian aid, it is an application designed to ensure that humanitarian aid actually gets to the people of Gaza who are in desperate need.”
CIJA Vice-President of External Affairs Richard Marceau likewise praised the court’s decision.
“We can now focus on the real issue: that legally, morally, and politically, Ottawa’s decision to resume funding for UNRWA was wrong,” he said.
“The Canadian families who lost loved ones in Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 have faced the most unbearable of losses, which is why, together we are fighting to reverse the decision and disqualify UNRWA from further Canadian funding.”
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Author of the article:Bryan Passifiume
Published Sep 13, 2024 • Last updated 2 days ago • 2 minute read
OTTAWA — Efforts by the federal government to quash an ongoing court case seeking a judicial review of Canada’s funding of a contentious UN agency were struck down in court this week.
On Wednesday, Federal Court Justice Glennys McVeigh dismissed a challenge by the government, who claimed the court had no jurisdiction over the government’s decision to fund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA,) and that decisions to support international humanitarian causes are made solely by the executive authority of ministers of the Crown.
“There may well be an insufficient objective legal basis to challenge the decision, and it might not ultimately be amenable to judicial review,” Justice McVeigh wrote in her decision.
“However, it cannot be said that the Attorney General’s arguments clearly render the type of ‘show stopper’ or ‘knockout punch’ necessary to strike the application at this stage.”
Earlier this year, Canadian family members of victims of the Oct. 7 terror attacks filed suit against the federal government for their decision to resume funding UNRWA, despite mountains of evidence that employees of the agency took active roles in the deadly Hamas attacks that killed over 1,000 Israelis and saw hundreds other taken hostage into Gaza.
The families, supported by the Centre for Israeli and Jewish Affairs, allege that Hamas co-locates terrorist infrastructure within UNRWA facilities, and that UNRWA schools teach Palestinian children to hate and kill Jews.
Canada initially followed-suit with the U.S. State Department in their January decision to suspending funding UNRWA, after evidence of UNRWA’s culpability in the Oct. 7 terror attacks came to light,
Despite this evidence, the Trudeau Liberals reversed that decision in March, in time for Canada it make good on a $25 million funding pledge to UNRWA, part of a $100 million grant announced last June.
The plaintiffs in the suit were pleased with the decision.
“There’s no dispute that humanitarian aid is needed and must urgently reach the civilian population in Gaza, but UNRWA cannot be the agency to fulfill this responsibility,” said co-counsel Lawrence Greenspon.
“This is not an application to stop Canadian funding for humanitarian aid, it is an application designed to ensure that humanitarian aid actually gets to the people of Gaza who are in desperate need.”
CIJA Vice-President of External Affairs Richard Marceau likewise praised the court’s decision.
“We can now focus on the real issue: that legally, morally, and politically, Ottawa’s decision to resume funding for UNRWA was wrong,” he said.
“The Canadian families who lost loved ones in Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 have faced the most unbearable of losses, which is why, together we are fighting to reverse the decision and disqualify UNRWA from further Canadian funding.”
bpassifiume@postmedia.com
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Government challenge on UNRWA funding review case struck down
The case seeks a judicial review over Ottawa's UNRWA funding, despite evidence that UN employees took part in the Oct. 7 terror attacks
Jewish journalists outraged by CBC's pivot from journalism to activism
Employees who complained to CBC bosses were allegedly told to mind their own business
Author of the article:Warren Kinsella
Published Sep 14, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read
The bonus pay for CBC's top executives exceeds what the average Canadian earns in a year.
From the river to the sea, CBC will be … discriminatory.
We’ve all grown used to hearing about managerial missteps at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: controversies about layoffs, controversies about mandate, controversies about executives quietly getting big bonuses. But Canadian Jews, in particular, continue to be treated unfairly by the taxpayer-subsidized broadcaster.
This writer has documented some of that imbalance in recent months. CBC has adamantly refused to call Hamas terrorists what they are, which is terrorists; they accept Israel-Hamas war casualty counts that come from Hamas; and they have established a secretive internal group – “Middle East 2023” – to oversee coverage of Israel, leaving Jews feeling isolated and victimized.
As one former senior producer said about CBC’s treatment of the Jewish state: “It’s extremely one-sided and is only leading to more misinformation and hatred towards the Jewish community in Canada.”
And, since the atrocities of Oct. 7, the situation is getting worse.
To cite just one example, a writer and producer for CBC’s digital team has shown up in the Toronto newsroom wearing a keffiyeh – and has posted online that Israel is “an oppressive, destructive” country and “you’re a vile human being if you still defend or excuse Israel.”
This message was posted on X by a CBC staffer on June 5, 2024, but has since been removed.
This message was posted on X by a CBC staffer on June 5, 2024, but has since been removed. Photo by Screenshot of post on X by @MRachini97
Employees who complained to CBC bosses were allegedly told to mind their own business.
But that’s not all:
The Toronto Sun has learned that CBC management has convened “listening sessions” for staff in the coming days – and the sessions are being led by “facilitators” who say they want to “challenge the status quo of Zionism,” who say Israel oversees “an immoral and oppressive occupation” – and one of whom has said he “wholeheartedly, unreservedly supports” an Ontario politician who has been sanctioned for anti-Semitic views in the provincial Legislature.
The “listening sessions” have left Jewish journalists feeling outraged.
Said one: “Many of us Jewish journalists have spent our entire careers committed to fairness and making sure that the work we put out is balanced, and that it’s backed up by journalistic ethics. And what we’ve seen within the last number of years is a pivot within the CBC from journalism to activism.”
Despite that, the CBC’s top spokesman, Chuck Thompson, was dismissive when asked about the sessions: “Respectfully, whatever meetings or sessions we may be having with employees are just that, they’re internal.”
With Jewish staff feeling targeted – and with Canadian Jews feeling like their tax dollars are being used against them by CBC – what is the solution? A British lawyer, of all people, may have one.
Trevor Asserson is an experienced litigator and Oxford-trained scholar. He’s an award-winning member of the bar in both Israel and the U.K.
A few days ago, Asserson released a shocking report on the the CBC’s original inspiration, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which found “a deeply worrying pattern of bias and multiple breaches by the BBC of its own editorial guidelines on impartiality, fairness and establishing the truth.”
Asserson and a team of data scientists and neutral lawyers examined nine million words produced by the BBC across television, radio, web and podcasts. They found an “overwhelming disparity in the perception of the two sides, with sympathy for Palestinians vastly outstripping sympathy for Israelis, even shortly after the massacre of October 7th, 2023.”
Key findings of the Asserson report:
– BBC’s major TV newscasts favoured the Palestine/Hamas side more than 90% of the time
– BBC web stories favoured the Palestine/Hamas side nearly twice as much as the Israeli side
– BBC accused Israel of war crimes 592 times and Hamas only 98 times
– BBC’s Arabic service even broadcast Hamas propaganda videos, and expressed open support for the terror group on Oct. 7 when 1,200 Jews were slaughtered and hundreds of Israeli women and girls were raped
Sound familiar? CBC, many suspect, is just as bad – or worse.
In an interview, Asserson said of CBC and BBC: “Israel is being reported on by media organizations that have authority [and which are] obliged to be impartial. So people therefore assume they are.”
But they’re often not – and that bias needs to be “challenged,” Asserson said.
He continued: “I’m less interested in private broadcasters being very anti-Israel or very pro-Israel, because they’re allowed to be. They don’t get any public money. You can just switch them off and watch something else. I believe in freedom of speech. But I don’t believe that a public body that’s obliged to be impartial should be allowed to get away with unfairness.”
Well, at the CBC, unfairness seems to being running the show(s).
And maybe it’s time for Trevor Asserson, or someone like him, to examine anti-Israel, anti-Jewish bias at CBC – because they’re doing it using our tax dollars.
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Employees who complained to CBC bosses were allegedly told to mind their own business
Author of the article:Warren Kinsella
Published Sep 14, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read
The bonus pay for CBC's top executives exceeds what the average Canadian earns in a year.
From the river to the sea, CBC will be … discriminatory.
We’ve all grown used to hearing about managerial missteps at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: controversies about layoffs, controversies about mandate, controversies about executives quietly getting big bonuses. But Canadian Jews, in particular, continue to be treated unfairly by the taxpayer-subsidized broadcaster.
This writer has documented some of that imbalance in recent months. CBC has adamantly refused to call Hamas terrorists what they are, which is terrorists; they accept Israel-Hamas war casualty counts that come from Hamas; and they have established a secretive internal group – “Middle East 2023” – to oversee coverage of Israel, leaving Jews feeling isolated and victimized.
As one former senior producer said about CBC’s treatment of the Jewish state: “It’s extremely one-sided and is only leading to more misinformation and hatred towards the Jewish community in Canada.”
And, since the atrocities of Oct. 7, the situation is getting worse.
To cite just one example, a writer and producer for CBC’s digital team has shown up in the Toronto newsroom wearing a keffiyeh – and has posted online that Israel is “an oppressive, destructive” country and “you’re a vile human being if you still defend or excuse Israel.”
This message was posted on X by a CBC staffer on June 5, 2024, but has since been removed.
This message was posted on X by a CBC staffer on June 5, 2024, but has since been removed. Photo by Screenshot of post on X by @MRachini97
Employees who complained to CBC bosses were allegedly told to mind their own business.
But that’s not all:
The Toronto Sun has learned that CBC management has convened “listening sessions” for staff in the coming days – and the sessions are being led by “facilitators” who say they want to “challenge the status quo of Zionism,” who say Israel oversees “an immoral and oppressive occupation” – and one of whom has said he “wholeheartedly, unreservedly supports” an Ontario politician who has been sanctioned for anti-Semitic views in the provincial Legislature.
The “listening sessions” have left Jewish journalists feeling outraged.
Said one: “Many of us Jewish journalists have spent our entire careers committed to fairness and making sure that the work we put out is balanced, and that it’s backed up by journalistic ethics. And what we’ve seen within the last number of years is a pivot within the CBC from journalism to activism.”
Despite that, the CBC’s top spokesman, Chuck Thompson, was dismissive when asked about the sessions: “Respectfully, whatever meetings or sessions we may be having with employees are just that, they’re internal.”
With Jewish staff feeling targeted – and with Canadian Jews feeling like their tax dollars are being used against them by CBC – what is the solution? A British lawyer, of all people, may have one.
Trevor Asserson is an experienced litigator and Oxford-trained scholar. He’s an award-winning member of the bar in both Israel and the U.K.
A few days ago, Asserson released a shocking report on the the CBC’s original inspiration, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which found “a deeply worrying pattern of bias and multiple breaches by the BBC of its own editorial guidelines on impartiality, fairness and establishing the truth.”
Asserson and a team of data scientists and neutral lawyers examined nine million words produced by the BBC across television, radio, web and podcasts. They found an “overwhelming disparity in the perception of the two sides, with sympathy for Palestinians vastly outstripping sympathy for Israelis, even shortly after the massacre of October 7th, 2023.”
Key findings of the Asserson report:
– BBC’s major TV newscasts favoured the Palestine/Hamas side more than 90% of the time
– BBC web stories favoured the Palestine/Hamas side nearly twice as much as the Israeli side
– BBC accused Israel of war crimes 592 times and Hamas only 98 times
– BBC’s Arabic service even broadcast Hamas propaganda videos, and expressed open support for the terror group on Oct. 7 when 1,200 Jews were slaughtered and hundreds of Israeli women and girls were raped
Sound familiar? CBC, many suspect, is just as bad – or worse.
In an interview, Asserson said of CBC and BBC: “Israel is being reported on by media organizations that have authority [and which are] obliged to be impartial. So people therefore assume they are.”
But they’re often not – and that bias needs to be “challenged,” Asserson said.
He continued: “I’m less interested in private broadcasters being very anti-Israel or very pro-Israel, because they’re allowed to be. They don’t get any public money. You can just switch them off and watch something else. I believe in freedom of speech. But I don’t believe that a public body that’s obliged to be impartial should be allowed to get away with unfairness.”
Well, at the CBC, unfairness seems to being running the show(s).
And maybe it’s time for Trevor Asserson, or someone like him, to examine anti-Israel, anti-Jewish bias at CBC – because they’re doing it using our tax dollars.
KINSELLA: Jewish journalists outraged by CBC's pivot from journalism to activism
Canadian Jews, in particular, continue to be treated unfairly by the taxpayer-subsidized Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Huh…this is actually pretty interesting, & about as unbiassed as anything coming out of this goat rodeo can be.
Hundreds of Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon in mass pager hack
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF, YONAH JEREMY BOB
Reports from Arab and Israeli media have said that over 1,200 people have been wounded.
Hundreds of members of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah were seriously wounded on Tuesday in Lebanon's south and the southern suburbs of Beirut when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, security sources told Reuters.
A Reuters journalist saw 10 Hezbollah members bleeding from wounds in the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahiyeh.
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How many civilians?
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF, YONAH JEREMY BOB
Reports from Arab and Israeli media have said that over 1,200 people have been wounded.
Hundreds of members of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah were seriously wounded on Tuesday in Lebanon's south and the southern suburbs of Beirut when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, security sources told Reuters.
A Reuters journalist saw 10 Hezbollah members bleeding from wounds in the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahiyeh.
Hundreds of Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon in mass pager hack
Reports from Arab and Israeli media have said that over 1,200 people have been wounded.
m.jpost.com
How many civilians?
Think about this people. Every device is a bomb.
Laptops
Cell phones
No idea, but that’s diabolical! Are these the pagers that set off the suicide vests? Is that why they exploded? Damn…
Video shows pagers exploding in Lebanon attack
According to the Lebanese health minister, more than 2,000 people have been injured after an attack that targeted the pagers of Hezbollah members in Lebanon....
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That’s pretty crazy. Pagers carried by thousands of Hezbollah operatives exploded at about the same time Tuesday afternoon in what appeared to be an unprecedented attack that authorities said injured more than 2,700 and killed eight across Lebanon.
The affected pagers were from a new shipment that the group received in recent days, people familiar with the matter said. A Hezbollah official said many fighters had such devices, speculating that malware might have caused the devices to explode.
Iranian state television said the country’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was injured by his pager but was conscious and not in danger. Iran is the main supporter of Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist group that has grown into one of the world’s best-armed nonstate militias.
The number of casualties was rising too quickly to count through the afternoon. Hezbollah seemed overwhelmed trying to keep up, and hospitals across the country struggled to treat the injured. Downtown Beirut was filled with the sirens of ambulances wailing by.
The number of emergency room admissions in southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, was extremely high. Wounds included severed fingers, head injuries and large gashes to people’s torsos.
Hezbollah acknowledged the vulnerability of its communication networks earlier in the war. In February, the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, urged its fighters to get rid of their smartphones, saying Israel could use them for surveillance or targeting.
Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel soon after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel that set off the war in Gaza. The two sides have exchanged fire daily since then, driving tens of thousands of people out of towns on both sides of the border and leaving hundreds of Hezbollah operatives dead.
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Hezbollah will have to coordinate its outings and get togethers using some other method I guess.
The affected pagers were from a new shipment that the group received in recent days, people familiar with the matter said. A Hezbollah official said many fighters had such devices, speculating that malware might have caused the devices to explode.
Iranian state television said the country’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was injured by his pager but was conscious and not in danger. Iran is the main supporter of Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist group that has grown into one of the world’s best-armed nonstate militias.
The number of casualties was rising too quickly to count through the afternoon. Hezbollah seemed overwhelmed trying to keep up, and hospitals across the country struggled to treat the injured. Downtown Beirut was filled with the sirens of ambulances wailing by.
The number of emergency room admissions in southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, was extremely high. Wounds included severed fingers, head injuries and large gashes to people’s torsos.
Hezbollah acknowledged the vulnerability of its communication networks earlier in the war. In February, the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, urged its fighters to get rid of their smartphones, saying Israel could use them for surveillance or targeting.
Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel soon after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel that set off the war in Gaza. The two sides have exchanged fire daily since then, driving tens of thousands of people out of towns on both sides of the border and leaving hundreds of Hezbollah operatives dead.
Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon — The Wall Street Journal
Eight people were killed and 2,750 wounded, country’s health minister says
That’s pretty crazy. Pagers carried by thousands of Hezbollah operatives exploded at about the same time Tuesday afternoon in what appeared to be an unprecedented attack that authorities said injured more than 2,700 and killed eight across Lebanon.
The affected pagers were from a new shipment that the group received in recent days, people familiar with the matter said. A Hezbollah official said many fighters had such devices, speculating that malware might have caused the devices to explode.
Iranian state television said the country’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was injured by his pager but was conscious and not in danger. Iran is the main supporter of Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist group that has grown into one of the world’s best-armed nonstate militias.
The number of casualties was rising too quickly to count through the afternoon. Hezbollah seemed overwhelmed trying to keep up, and hospitals across the country struggled to treat the injured. Downtown Beirut was filled with the sirens of ambulances wailing by.
The number of emergency room admissions in southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, was extremely high. Wounds included severed fingers, head injuries and large gashes to people’s torsos.
Hezbollah acknowledged the vulnerability of its communication networks earlier in the war. In February, the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, urged its fighters to get rid of their smartphones, saying Israel could use them for surveillance or targeting.
Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel soon after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel that set off the war in Gaza. The two sides have exchanged fire daily since then, driving tens of thousands of people out of towns on both sides of the border and leaving hundreds of Hezbollah operatives dead.
Hezbollah will have to coordinate its outings and get togethers using some other method I guess.Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon — The Wall Street Journal
Eight people were killed and 2,750 wounded, country’s health minister says
Power-line communication - Wikipedia
The plot appears to have been many months in the making, several sources told Reuters.
The senior Lebanese security source said the group (Hezbollah) had ordered 5,000 beepers made by Taiwan-based Gold Apollo, which several sources say were brought into the country in the spring.
The senior Lebanese security source identified a photograph of the model of the pager, an AP924, which like other pagers wirelessly receive and display text messages but cannot make telephone calls.
Hezbollah fighters have been using pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli location-tracking, two sources familiar with the group's operations told Reuters this year.
But the senior Lebanese source said the devices had been modified by Israel's spy service "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. Even with any device or scanner," the source said.
5,000 - 3,000 = 2,000 more in Lebanon?
The source said 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.
Israel planted explosives in Hezbollah's Taiwan-made pagers, sources say — Reuters
Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters.
(perhaps Iran can sponsor Hezbollah some cups & string next?)
Hezbollah was hit Wednesday by another wave of exploding devices, as Israel signaled it was moving toward more aggressive military action against the Lebanese militant group.
Walkie-talkies used by the group blew up in homes, cars and in operatives’ hands across the country, people familiar with the matter said—just a day after thousands of pagers carried by Hezbollah members exploded at roughly the same time, injuring more than 2,800 people and killing 12.
The militant group was scrambling to assess the extent and nature of the two days of explosions. Details emerging from investigations into Tuesday’s massive attack pointed to a highly complex plan carried out by Israel, in which explosives were planted in thousands of devices destined for Hezbollah members and then detonated by a remote signal.
Hezbollah Walkie-Talkies Blow Up Across Lebanon in Second Wave of Attacks — The Wall Street Journal
Initial assessment from Tuesday’s attack is that pagers detonated because an explosive device was planted in the models
Israelophobia is the default position of the influential classes, but surely even they will admit this was an ingenious way for the Jewish State to take out the adherents to a self-styled “army of god” that has sworn itself to excising the “cancerous growth” of Zionism from the Middle East. (They mean Jews.)
Brendan O'Neill: This wasn’t a war crime — it was an audacious assault on antisemites — National Post
The left’s crazy wailing over the exploding Hezbollah pagers shows that Israel can’t do right for doing wrong
How a Covert Attack Against Hezbollah Unfolded Across Lebanon’s Streets and Malls — The Wall Street Journal
Pagers, walkie-talkies detonated as members of the militant group ate lunch, attended funerals and went about daily life