As part of an Israeli plan to eliminate Hezbollah, weaponized pager batteries arrived in Lebanon at the beginning of the year. They contained powerfully deceptive features and an Achilles’ heel.
According to a Lebanese source with first-hand knowledge of the pagers and teardown photos of the battery pack seen by Reuters, the agents who built the pagers designed a battery that concealed a small but potent charge of plastic explosive and a novel detonator that was invisible to X-ray.
According to a Reuters review of web archives, they created fake online stores, pages, and posts that could deceive Hezbollah due diligence in order to overcome the flaw, which was the absence of a plausible backstory for the bulky new product.
The subtle plan of the pager bomb and the battery’s painstakingly developed main story, both depicted here interestingly, shed light on the execution of a years-in length activity which has struck remarkable blows against Israel’s Iran-upheld Lebanese enemy and pushed the Center East more like a local clash.
