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Sky News Arabia said that the pager attack that hit the Lebanese Hezbollah was not surprising, revealing an old statement that Hezbollah did not pay attention to, stressing that the ongoing conflict between Iran, its arm Hezbollah, and Israel does not only require attention to communications devices, but also more study of everything that is said in the media.
According to the channel’s website, exactly a year before the pager attacks in Lebanon, which represented a major blow to Hezbollah, there were signs that the party did not pay attention to.
In an interview conducted by former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen in September 2023, a month before the war, he told the Hebrew website Mako: “We want to be in their supply chain, and we want to interfere in it,” according to the Hebrew-language platform IntelliTimes, which is concerned with intelligence news.
Thirty-seven people, most of them Hezbollah members, were killed and nearly three thousand others were injured as a result of the explosion of thousands of “pagers” on Tuesday, and then of wireless communication devices on Wednesday, used by Hezbollah members.
A report by the American newspaper, The New York Times, revealed that the Hungarian company, BAC, whose name was linked to the bombing of pagers in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday, is nothing more than part of an “Israeli front.”
The New York Times, citing three intelligence sources it described as informed, said that the Hungarian company and at least two other fake companies were also created to hide the real identities of the people who manufacture the pagers.
The newspaper pointed out that the real manufacturer of these devices is “Israeli intelligence.”
She said that BAC dealt with ordinary clients and produced a range of pagers for them, but “the most important client was Hezbollah.”
She explained that the pagers that the company produced specifically for Hezbollah contained batteries mixed with the explosive substance “Pent,” according to the three sources.
According to the New York Times, pagers began being shipped to Lebanon in the summer of 2022 in small numbers, but production quickly increased after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah banned the use of easily tracked cell phones and decided to rely on low-tech devices like pagers.
The newspaper quoted its intelligence sources as saying: “Nasrallah ordered Hezbollah officials to carry pagers at all times, and in the event of war they are used to tell fighters where to go.”
Over the summer, shipments of pagers to Lebanon increased, with thousands arriving and being distributed to Hezbollah members and their allies, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
“For Hezbollah, these devices were a defensive measure, but for Israel they were like buttons that could be pressed when the time seemed right,” according to the newspaper’s sources.
