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Israel Carry Out Pager Attack On Hezbollah

  • By Thetripurapost Desk, Jerusalem
  • Sep 17, 2024
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Hezbollah's pagers exploded in Lebanon on Tuesday afternoon. This explosion was so massive that Hezbollah could not understand what happened. 

Anyone who was using a pager in Lebanon became a victim of the explosion. 

Actually, Hezbollah fighters use pagers to avoid Israeli attacks. They thought that pagers cannot be hacked and they are safe. Here Hezbollah fighters forgot who invented the pager. 

Actually, the pager was invented by Irving Al Gross, born in a Romanian Jewish family. Gross was born in Toronto, Canada, but spent the rest of his life in the US state of Ohio.

According to Israeli media reports, pagers were being hacked for a long time, but the plan for such a large-scale attack was prepared after a lot of deliberation. Months were also waited for the attack. In recent years, there has been tremendous progress in cell phone hacking capabilities, which has caused a lot of damage to Hezbollah. This is why Hezbollah started using pagers, but it did not even realize that Israel was keeping a close watch on its messages. Israel attacked at a time when pagers were in the pockets or hands of Hezbollah fighters. This caused maximum damage.

A pager is a wireless telecommunication device that receives alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can receive messages, reply to them and send new messages using an internal transmitter. 

In such a situation, pagers have to use a network that can be easily hacked. Israeli engineers took advantage of this shortcoming and started tracking the pagers connected to Hezbollah fighters. During the attack, they heated up the batteries of the pagers so much that they started exploding like a bomb. This created panic among the Hezbollah fighters.

Already, the US and Israel had hacked and destroyed more than 1,000 Iranian nuclear centrifuges between 2009-2010. 

The US later hacked a key intelligence-gathering naval vessel belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. On May 9, 2020, Iran had to close Port Shahid Rajai for a long time due to a hacker attack. On October 30, 2021, 4,300 Iranian gas stations across the country were hacked and shut down