It’s glorious. Terrorizing the terrorists. They’re getting a taste of their own medicine.
Pagers for Palestine.
Thousands of Hezbollah terrorists were injured on Tuesday during one of the most efficient large-scale military attacks in the history of warfare.
Israel reportedly infiltrated Hezbollah’s supply chain and rigged thousands of pagers with pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a highly explosive material, which was then remotely detonated simultaneously.
The pagers were programmed to beep for several seconds before exploding, The New York Times reported.
A tiny bit of explosive material was placed in each pager next to the battery and was detonated with a switch that allowed the bomb to be triggered remotely.
The pagers were detonated at 3:30 p.m. in Lebanon when the terrorists received a message that appeared as though it was coming from Hezbollah’s leadership, The Times reported.
Approximately 4,000 were injured, 500 of whom were listed in critical condition, and at least 11 were killed. Among the 11 that have so far been announced as dead, at 10 were Hezbollah terrorists.
The pagers were imported months ago from a Taiwan, but were only recently given to the Hezbollah terrorists, reports said. A small amount of explosive material had been placed in each device before it ever reached Lebanon.
…….When the first member of Hezbollah suspected foul play several days ago, he was killed. When the second member figured out that the devices had been compromised, Israel was forced to make a decision.
Hezbollah had their fighters switch to using pagers because they believed that Israel was monitoring their cell phone communications.
The U.S. was not alerted to the plan, presumably because Israel cannot trust the pro-Iran Biden-Harris administration.
The Israeli intelligence operation against Hezbollah, which saw thousands of booby-trapped pagers, walkie-talkies and other electronic devices exploding by remote control, will significantly damage the ability of the Lebanese terror group to fight against Israel, experts told The Post.
But the question remains: Why would Israel order the blasts now?
One answer could lie in the north of the Jewish state, where Hezbollah has been launching near-daily airstrikes — starting almost immediately after Hamas’ horrific Oct. 7 attack on Israeli civilians, said Nicolas Carl, research manager for the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project.
“Israeli senior political and military leaders have been very clear in this time that they see the security situation along their northern border as unsustainable,” Carl told The Post.
……..Both Hamas and Hezbollah are backed by Iran and include the destruction of the state of Israel in their demands.
The Hezbollah airstrikes have forced many civilians living in the northernmost territories of Israel to flee.
“[Israelis] need to, as they put it, change the security situation so that they can secure a lot of these northern communities and all these displaced peoples who have been forced to evacuate their homes because of the near constant bombardment by Lebanese Hezbollah into Israel,” Carl said.
On Monday — just a day before roughly 2,800 people were injured in Mossad’s head-turning pager attack — the Israeli security cabinet approved “returning the residents of the north securely to their homes” as a formal war objective.
The move marked “the first time that northern Israel is officially included in Israel’s stated war objectives,” according to a joint report by the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project and the Institute for the Study of War.
While the impressive attacks appeared to some to come out of nowhere, the complexity of the operation suggests Mossad plotted it for months, if not years, experts said — and there had been clear warning signs of a shift in the conflict on the horizon.
Regardless of whether more attacks are soon to come, Israel’s recent blasts have already become “Hezbollah’s worst nightmare,” adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Seth J. Frantzman told The Post.
“Hezbollah is not used to internal chaos,” he said. “Hezbollah will now be overly cautious about any outside devices it acquires.”
The blasts have left the terrorists — who already were apprehensive about cellphones — even more paranoid, leaving a big question mark over how they will communicate and plan their future attacks.
“The nature and scale of the attack also likely stoked confusion and shock among some Hezbollah members,” according to a joint report by the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project and the Institute for the Study of War.
“These effects could drive general paranoia within Hezbollah as well, given that Israel has demonstrated repeatedly in recent months how deeply it has infiltrated Iranian and Iranian-backed networks.”
The group shifted to using pagers out of concern over Israel’s ability to hack and track more modern technology with capabilities such as GPS. Now, Hezbollah must regroup to come up with a new communications tactic that may not be as fast and effective.
“The group is already concerned that its own internal landlines are compromised and it prefers to stay away from cellphones, leaving it with fewer options to coordinate its terrorist activities,” Frantzman said.
A second attack on Wednesday targeting other types of devices, such as hand-held radios key for Hezbollah’s communications, will likely cause further concern and paranoia among the terrorists, Frantzman said.
Kudos to Israel. It’s a brilliant operation. After what Hamas and Hezbollah did on 07 Oct, they deserve every bomb they get.
From Henry Payne of the Detroit News.
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