According to officials who spoke to the American newspaper, the hacking Hezbollah Lebanese, by blowing up the devicesPager“Carried by a number of its elements, it took a decade.
According to the Washington Post, the marks on the damaged electronic components left a trail leading through a factory in Taiwan To a Hungarian shell company suspected of Israeli Intelligence created or exploited to conceal its alleged role in delivering “lethal” devices to Hezbollah.
The newspaper said that Western security officials in another European capital investigated whether a second shell company there was the real seller behind the pager deal.
The newspaper explained that what happened is part of a multi-faceted effort made by Israel over the past decade to develop a plan that Israeli officials referred to as the “red button,” which means penetrating the opponent in a devastating way, with the plan remaining dormant for a period of time as needed, before being activated.
Why Israel pressed such a “red button” last week remains a mystery, although experts have speculated that Israeli officials were concerned about the potential for thousands of pagers to be turned into small explosive devices.
Such attacks are generally designed to serve as a prelude to a broader offensive, sowing chaos in preparation for later military operations, officials said.
Reuters quoted two security sources on Thursday as saying that Hezbollah had delivered new pagers bearing the “Gold Apollo” brand to its members hours before thousands of them were detonated, indicating that the group was confident that the devices were safe despite ongoing inspections of electronic equipment to detect threats.
In what appeared to be a coordinated attack, the devices carrying the bombs exploded. Brand To the company “Gold Apollo” last Tuesday in all parts South Lebanon and the southern suburb To Beirut and the Bekaa Valley.
On Wednesday, hundreds of other walkie-talkies also exploded, killing 37 people, including at least two children, and wounding more than 3,000.
