International experts believe that the Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service, "infiltrated the supply chain" of the devices
The simultaneous explosion of the pagers (beepers) of hundreds of Hezbollah members in Lebanon and Syria It seems to be the result of a infiltration in the logistics chain of pro-Iranian terrorist group and would constitute a new success for the Israeli secret services.
According to what he told the news agency AFP A source close to Hezbollah said, “The beepers [a messaging device] that exploded concern a shipment recently imported by Hezbollah of a thousand devices,” appear to have been “pirated at source”.
“According to the video recordings […], surely A small plastic explosive was hidden next to the battery [of the trackers], to be activated remotely by sending a message," said Charles Lister, an expert in the social network X Middle East Institute (MEI).
According to Lister, this means that Mossad, the Israeli foreign intelligence service, “infiltrated the supply chain.”
The agents Perhaps they “infiltrated the production process and added an explosive component and a detonator capable of being activated remotely to the locators, “without arousing suspicion,” said Brussels-based military analyst Elijah Magnier, who referred to “a major security breach in Hezbollah’s protocols.”
“Whether by posing as a supplier or incorporating the manipulated equipment directly into Hezbollah's logistics chain through its points of vulnerability [transport trucks, merchant ships], they managed to distribute the beepers within the organization,” said Mike DiMino, a security expert and former CIA analyst.
The chain Sky News Arabia cites sources that claim that the Mossad obtained the devices before they were handed over to Hezbollah. And the diary The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that some members of the Lebanese terror group felt their locators getting hot and got rid of them before the series of explosions on Tuesday.
For its part, the chain Al Jazeera He cited a Lebanese security source as saying that the weight of the explosive placed in each device was less than 20 grams and that the devices that exploded were imported five months ago.
Israeli services “at their finest”
This operation, a sophisticated cyber attack, but with very outdated tools, would represent a new spectacular success for the Israeli services, following the assassination in Tehran, at the end of July, of the political leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh.
According to New York Times, on that occasion a bomb had been hidden in the building two months earlier.
Expert Mike DiMino considered in X that Tuesday's explosions constitute “a classic sabotage operation, the work of intelligence services at its finest.” He added: “To properly organize an operation of this magnitude takes months, if not years.”
The explosion of the beepers It came amid rising tensions between Israel and Hamas's ally Hezbollah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that the return of residents in the north of the country who had to flee their homes because of Hezbollah's cross-border fire is one of his government's goals.
The attack on Tuesday, "carried out with very basic equipment, This will probably increase the stress and embarrassment of the leaders of the Lebanese movement, “If someone were to prepare a ground incursion into Lebanon to push Hezbollah north […], this is exactly the kind of chaos that would happen first,” said former Israeli intelligence agent Avi Melamed.
(With information from AFP)
Source: INFOBAE