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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dalvinder45" data-source="post: 225991" data-attributes="member: 26009">Pager bomb attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon: some New fats Dr Dalvinder Singh GrewalPagers are wireless telecommunications devices that receive and display alphanumeric or voice messages. They are much harder to track than mobile phones, which have long since been abandoned as simply too vulnerable, as Israel’s assassination of the Hamas bomb-maker Yahya Ayyash demonstrated as long ago as 1996, when his phone exploded in his hand. In February, Hassan Nasrallah directed Hezbollah fighters to get rid of their phones, saying they had been infiltrated by Israeli intelligence. He told his forces to break, bury or lock their phones in an iron box. Experts now say the directive, issued during a live televised address, may have forewarned Israeli intelligence operatives that the group would be seeking a new - likely lower tech - method of communications. Hezbollah has relied heavily on pagers as a low-tech means of communications to try to evade location-tracking by Israel. In February, Hassan Nasrallah directed Hezbollah fighters to get rid of their phones, saying they had been infiltrated by Israeli intelligence. He told his forces to break, bury or lock their phones in an iron box.Experts now say the directive, issued during a live televised address, may have forewarned Israeli intelligence operatives that the group would be seeking a new - likely lower tech - method of communications.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time admitted that Israel was behind the pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah in September that left at least 39 people dead and more than 3,000 injured, local media reports have said."The pager operation and the elimination of (Hezbollah leader Hassan) Nasrallah were carried out despite the opposition of senior officials in the defence establishment and those responsible for them in the political echelon," The Times of Israel newspaper quoted Netanyahu as saying. The opposition to pager attack was probably from the then Defence Minister who has been recently removed from his post.Thousands of pagers containing explosives exploded on their Hezbollah owners across Lebanon and parts of Syria on September 16While the world was still absorbing the news of pager explosions, walkie-talkies met the same fate a day later on September 17, shocking the world at the level of Israeli intelligence's preparation in its war against the Lebanese Shia militia.Netanyahu's statement is being interpreted in the context of his firing of Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and efforts to shore up personal popularity by taking credit for war successes.Gallant was fired from the defence minister's position on November 5.Netanyahu and Gallant have clashed repeatedly over the course of their time in government together.Netanyahu also tried to get rid of him in March 2023 as well, a day after Gallant called for pausing the legislation process of the government's contentious judicial overhaul plan arguing that it caused divisions that posed a threat to national security, but had to reinstate him due to massive public protests.He was the defence minister when Hamas committed its deadly terror assault in southern Israel on October 7 last year and had so far carried out his duties in the subsequent war in the Gaza Strip, the fighting on the northern border, and the ground operation in southern Lebanon.In a press conference on Tuesday, Gallant said that he was fired because of differences on the issue of the need to draft ultra-orthodox men in the Israel Defence Forces, the imperative to bring back the hostages from Gaza, and the need for establishing a state commission of inquiry to look into the October 7 Hamas terror attack and the ensuing war.Netanyahu has resisted taking responsibility for the country's security oversights, blaming Israel's security forces for the failure to foresee Hamas' October 7 massacre.He has also ducked calls for a public commission of inquiry to be constituted into events leading up to it.</blockquote>

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