A pager-bomb attack causes disarray for Hizbullah
People react near an ambulance as the wounded are brought to a hospital in Beirut. Hundreds of people were wounded when Hezbollah members' paging devices exploded simultaneously across Lebanon.
2024-09-17 872词 中等
Similar scenes played out across Lebanon and Syria on September 17th, when thousands of pagers exploded within a short span of time, perhaps an hour. The devices were used by Hizbullah, the Shia militia that has been firing rockets at Israel since October last year. Months ago the group told its cadres to ditch their mobile phones, warning that Israel could hack them for surveillance and to target assassinations. Pagers were said to be a safe alternative, too low-tech to penetrate. That view was clearly mistaken.
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