They probably launched a virus (a la Pegasus) onto the pagers to cause the batteries to overheat. Israel is known for daring covert operations, but even for that country this attack would be exceptional.

PETN is a secondary explosive, meaning it is more difficult to detonate than primary explosives. I only know it was/is a major part of Semtex.It is a very powerful explosive material first prepared and patented in 1894 by the explosives manufacturer Rheinisch-Westfälische Sprengstoff A.G. [de] of Cologne, Germany.

I don't wanna sound rude, but I'm really not understanding this

Sorry it's the same article as the one in English.

No worries. Just post exclusively in Dutch! We'll just hit 'translate'. It's just one button

Haha I won't do that unless you want to learn Dutch like Christy Kinahan.

Lol that would be funny. Maybe some other day

Dutch is probably the easiest language to learn for English speakers as it positions itself somewhere between German and English.

I did understand the word "door" from that text. Sadly, that was about it lol. By the way, this word "pentaerythritoltetranitraat" almost brought on a stroke

On 17 September 2024, around 3,000 pagers simultaneously exploded across Lebanon and Syria in an apparent coordinated attack during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hezbollah political party and militant group.

Hezbollah blames this extraordinary attack, on Israel.

Pagers in deadly attack on Hezbollah ‘made in Europe’, as Middle East braces for reprisals.
Taiwanese company Gold Apollo says a company in Europe made the pagers used. Was that you Hollander

Those wounded in the attack include Iran’s ambassador to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani, according to reports.
Iran’s ambassador carrying Iranian-led terrorist pager

Yeah, I never believed it was a virus that simply caused the batteries to overheat. It was too well coordinated and those gadgets would've been piping hot. The first thing I thought of was a compromised business transaction

They are now saying the pagers were produced in Hungary, Israelli security have strong links in that country.. Pagers are now uncommon in most Western countries, but were widely used in the 1980s and 1990s.

Mr Hunter says his initial theory - based on injuries - suggests the blasts are "consistent with 1 to 2 ounces of high explosive. And you could certainly get that amount in a pager.

"We've seen ETA [a separatist group operating in Spain], we've seen the Colombian groups, we've seen the provisional IRA use pagers as explosive devices," he said.

https://news.sky.com/story/explodin...-technology-against-its-enemies-13216769

news that more bombs now has been exploded all over lebanon again

From: The Guardian September 18, 2024

One Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity said the detonation was the group’s “biggest security breach” since the Gaza conflict erupted on 7 October when Hamas launched attacks in southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 people hostage.

Jonathan Panikoff, the US government’s former deputy national intelligence officer on the Middle East, said: “This would easily be the biggest counter-intelligence failure that Hezbollah has had in decades”

The apparent sabotage attack follows months of targeted assassinations by Israel against senior Hezbollah leaders and has ratcheted up tensions between Israel and Hezbollah.

An uneasy calm had prevailed in the past three weeks when both parties had appeared to step back from the brink of a regional war after a limited Hezbollah response in late August to Israel’s assassination of its top military commander, Fuad Shukur, in Beirut.

The attack also threatens to derail efforts by the US to prevent Iran, which backs the Lebanese Shia militia, from retaliating against Israel for the July 2024 bombing in Tehran that killed the Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.

The US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, said it was “too early to say” how it would affect Gaza ceasefire talks Miller told a briefing “the US was not involved and did not know who was responsible”

Hamas described the attack as an “escalation” that would lead to Israel’s defeat.

It seems, the primary objective of the Hezbollah exploding pagers and now also walkie-talkies, was to sabotage Hezbollah's main communication Network and causing mayhem, panic and paranoia -- any collateral death, injury, other damage is not undesired

No doubt, it's been a phenomenal success

They are apparently throwing out Microwave ovens, not taking deliveries, not venturing out etc. because of the wide spread fear as intended

Walkie-Talkies this time not pagers old school shit.

Second day of deadly explosions: At least 20 people were killed and more than 450 were injured after walkie-talkies detonated Wednesday in Lebanon, according to officials, a day after a wave of pager explosions killed at least 12 people and injured more than 2,800.

Also

Israeli military says it struck several Hezbollah "infrastructure sites" in southern Lebanon
From CNN’s Mohammed Tawfeeq
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Wednesday it struck several Hezbollah “infrastructure sites” in southern Lebanon.

The Israeli military “struck a Hezbollah launcher” as well as “infrastructure sites in the areas of Halta, Kfarkela, Odaisseh, and Chama in southern Lebanon,” the IDF said in a statement.

The strikes came after “approximately 20 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon” into the country’s northern-most territory, known as the Upper Galilee, the IDF added.

The IDF said it had intercepted “some of the projectiles,” and no injuries were reported.

Hezbollah claimed to have attacked several Israeli military sites in northern Israel with rockets throughout Wednesday. The Iran-backed militant group described those attacks as being in support of Palestinians in Gaza.

The group also announced the deaths of at least 11 members on Wednesday but did not give details on the circumstances.

According to CNN, their washing machines and their toasters are now blowing up. Thousands of people injured or dead

I kid

I heard the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and their proxies are using Iraq as their main foreign base that would bring them even closer to Israel and a bigger threat to the US army in the Middle-East.

this is such a crazy opertaion
people don't seem to realize that even if the amount of deaths is low, still you have around 4,000 injured terrorists who lost they eyes, finger (while holding the thing with their hands), infections (lebanon is 3 world country, hospitals are crap there)
the mossad did something that will never be forgotten
even james bond couldn't come with something like that lol

Pager explosions will devastate Hezbollah's morale and manpower
BBC by Paul Adams Diplomatic correspondent in Jerusalem 18 September 2024

Doesn't the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah use pagers and/or walkie-talkies....

Extracts:

• Hezbollah's exploding pagers and now also walkie-talkies

It is hard to think of an attack more calculated to sow fear and confusion

Hezbollah relies heavily on pagers for the group’s communications. Mobile phones have long since been abandoned as simply too vulnerable - as Israel’s assassination of a Hamas bombmaker demonstrated as long ago as 1996

But today’s attacks of Hezbollah's exploding pagers and now also walkie-talkies, were terrifying in their scope

Hezbollah members were blown up in supermarkets, on the street, in their cars, at home, next to their children
Incidents were reported from all across Lebanon, from Beirut to the Bekaa Valley. Even from neighbouring Syria

Iranian state TV confirmed that Tehran’s ambassador in Lebanon was among those injured
Each explosion may have been small but some resulted in catastrophic injuries
One particularly graphic image showed a lifeless young man slumped in a barber’s chair, his face bloodied

At a time when Hezbollah and Israel have been locked in a low-level war for almost a year, these attacks will have devastating consequences for Hezbollah’s manpower, communications and morale

Israel has yet to comment but this was undoubtedly its work - no other group or country has the motivation or capacity to do something like this

It is the latest in a series of sophisticated military and undercover operations that have included since mid-July 2024 a long-range air raid in Yemen as well as assassinations in Beirut and Tehran

Pager explosions will devastate Hezbollah's morale and manpower
BBC by Paul Adams Diplomatic correspondent in Jerusalem 18 September 2024

Extracts:

• Do the pager attacks herald a larger Israeli operation?

With large numbers of Hezbollah's personnel now injured and its vital communication network massively - and embarrassingly - disrupted, this would clearly be a tempting moment for Israel to take advantage

Israeli leaders have been signalling, in recent days, their desire to alter the military status quo along the Lebanese border

On Sunday, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel needed “a change in the balance of power on our northern border"

Tens of thousands of Israeli citizens have spent most of a year away from their homes. Israel ordered an evacuation of vulnerable northern communities when Hezbollah started firing rockets into northern Israel, soon after the Gaza war began

Months of retaliatory Israeli air strikes have also forced huge numbers of Lebanese civilians to abandon their homes

On Monday, Mr Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, both warned a visiting US official that Israel was prepared to do whatever it took to ensure its security

For the first time, the government also said its Gaza war aims included allowing Israelis to return to their homes, raising the spectre of a wider conflict, possibly involving a limited ground invasion to create a buffer zone in southern Lebanon

There are no signs yet of the sort of build up of men and armour that would be needed for a major military incursion but today’s attacks represent yet another dangerous escalation

It is hard to see how Hezbollah won’t feel compelled to respond in some way

Pager explosions will devastate Hezbollah's morale and manpower
BBC by Paul Adams Diplomatic correspondent in Jerusalem 18 September 2024

Extracts:

• It is hard to think of an attack more calculated to sow fear and confusion -- terrifying in their scope
• Hezbollah members were blown up in supermarkets, on the street, in their cars, at home, next to their children
• At a time when Hezbollah and Israel have been locked in a low-level war for almost a year, these attacks will have devastating consequences for Hezbollah’s manpower, communications and morale
• With large numbers of Hezbollah's personnel now injured and its vital communication network massively - and embarrassingly - disrupted, this would clearly be a tempting moment for Israel to take advantage

Please! Strike while the Iron is hot. Please! Not another missed opportunity

US urges Australia to reject UN resolution on Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank
Skynews.com.au by Digital Reporter Oscar Godsell 17 September 2024

Extracts:
The United States has urged Australia to turn down a controversial [ultra extreme] United Nations (UN) resolution demanding Israel withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank

The eight-page draft

• has called for Israel to “end without delay its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”
• Key provisions included
  1. a complete and unconditional withdrawal from Gaza
  2. evacuation of Israeli settlers from the West Bank
  3. and reparations for Palestinians
• Palestine also demanded sanctions and travel bans on Israelis linked to the occupation and a ban on weapons sales to Tel Aviv

The US has since strongly condemned the draft resolution and urged its allies to reject – or at least *abstain – from voting on the resolution when it’s put forward on Thursday 19 September 2024

Yes vote is a vote for terrorism -- Rewarding the terrorists

UNGA votes to demand Israel end Palestinian occupation
ABC Australia by Brad Ryan in Washington DC with wires 19 September 2024

Extracts:

• United Nations General Assembly votes to demand Israel end Palestinian occupation

The United Nations General Assembly UN long dominated by countries hostile to Israel has overwhelmingly voted in favour of a Palestinian resolution demanding Israel end its "unlawful presence" in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year

The vote in the 193-member world body was 124-14 with Australia one of *43 member states to abstain
Voting results of UNGA resolution -- Yes: 124 | No: 14 | Abstentions: 43 | Non-Voting: 12 | Total voting membership: 193

The United States voted against it

Iran and Russia voted Yes
Belgium, France, Japan and New Zealand also voted Yes

*Including Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and !Ukraine!

The resolution was adopted as troubled efforts to broker a ceasefire deal in Gaza press ahead

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is holding meetings with mediators in Egypt even as attacks elsewhere in the region — including a fresh wave of explosions across Lebanon — raise fears of escalating conflict in the Middle East


The resolution is the first put forward by the Palestinian Authority since member states, including Australia, voted to give it new rights and privileges, in July 2024 They include a seat among UN members in the assembly hall and the right to propose draft resolutions

The US called it "one-sided" because it did not recognise that Hamas still exerted power in Gaza, nor state that Israel had a right to defend itself from terrorism


Unlike in the UN Security Council, the US does not have veto powers in the General Assembly

UNGA votes to demand Israel end Palestinian occupation
ABC Australia by Brad Ryan in Washington DC with wires 19 September 2024

Extracts: among others,

• controversial United Nations (UN) resolution demands the withdrawal of all Israeli forces and the evacuation of settlers from the occupied Palestinian territories "without delay"
• It calls for Israel to pay reparations to Palestinians for the damage caused by its occupation

Neither the resolution, nor the World Court's advisory ruling, are legally binding

The resolution asks UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres to submit a report within three months on putting the resolution in place
Palestinian UN ambassador, Riyad Mansour, said
Israel's UN ambassador, Danny Danon, said
FACT SHEET: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel
Publish Date: 11 June 2024

Extracts:
Antonio Guterres follows a worrisome trend in his handling of antisemitism as UN Secretary General -- UN long dominated by countries hostile to Israel


Again, there is no equivalence between Democratic Israel and murderous terrorists

F**k with the bull, get the horn.

Look, let's get 'em all -- let's get 'em all now, while we got the muscle and They in fear and confusion -- terrifying in their scope and to find out who the traitor in their shipment of pagers was.

“Revenge is a dish best served hot with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies

Israeli recruited by Iran in plot to kill Netanyahu, Gallant or Shin Bet head Bar

A 73-year-old Jewish man was smuggled from Turkey into the Iran Islamic Republic twice for meetings with intelligence officials who tried to task him with working on assassinations, plus other Iranian "Cold War" missions

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israe...-netanyahu-gallant-or-shin-bet-head-bar/

nasrallah speech is right now
everyone wait to see if he declare on full scale war against israel or not
and if he does then whether iran will join (not likely, the muslim persians always use arabs as their puppets as usual and don't get their hands dirty).