2024 Lebanon pager explosions

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The 2024 Lebanon pager explosions consisted of coordinated detonations of thousands of handheld pagers and hundreds of walkie-talkies distributed to Hezbollah operatives, occurring simultaneously on 17 and 18 September across Lebanon and parts of Syria.^[1]^[2] The initial pager blasts killed at least 12 people, primarily Hezbollah operatives including two children, and wounded around 2,800 others, while the subsequent walkie-talkie explosions claimed 20 more lives and injured over 450.^[3]^[4]^[2] Explosives, including compounds like pentaerythritol tetranitrate, were concealed within device batteries during manufacturing, enabling remote activation via encoded signals in a supply-chain compromise orchestrated through shell companies.^[5]^[6] Hezbollah had shifted to these low-tech devices to evade Israeli monitoring of cellular and internet communications, rendering the operation a precise degradation of its operational communications.^[1] The attacks, attributed to Israeli intelligence by Lebanese authorities, U.S. officials, and forensic analyses despite no official Israeli confirmation, inflicted targeted losses on Hezbollah leadership and sparked international debate over proportionality, civilian harm, and compliance with laws of armed conflict.^[7]^[8]

Background

Hezbollah's adoption of pagers

Hezbollah, confronting Israel's sophisticated electronic surveillance and cyber capabilities, transitioned to pagers for operative communications in early 2024. Conventional smartphones exposed users to real-time geolocation through GPS, cell tower triangulation, and potential remote hacking or malware implantation, vulnerabilities exacerbated by Israeli jamming of cellular networks during cross-border operations. Pagers, reliant on one-way radio frequency broadcasts from dedicated networks, transmit only incoming alerts without outbound signals or embedded tracking hardware, thereby reducing the risk of precise location fixes or content interception.^[9]^[10]^[11] This low-tech pivot aligned with Hezbollah's operational demands amid its campaign of rocket and drone attacks on northern Israel, initiated on October 8, 2023, in coordination with Hamas's assault the prior day. As an Iran-backed militia, Hezbollah fired over 8,000 projectiles by September 2024, aiming to divert Israeli resources from Gaza while sustaining low-intensity pressure on the border; such activities required field-level instructions disseminated securely to avoid preemptive strikes or arrests. Pagers enabled one-directional dispatch of coded directives, minimizing electronic footprints in contested areas where smartphones proved unreliable.^[12]^[13]^[14] Procurement focused on the AR-924 model, a rugged device advertised for durability with rechargeable lithium batteries and capacity for messages up to 100 characters. Hezbollah acquired approximately 5,000 units, sourced via shell entities including Hungary-based BAC Consulting KFT, which facilitated orders under the established Taiwanese Gold Apollo brand to bypass sanctions and Western export controls on dual-use tech. This indirect routing through non-Western intermediaries ensured deniability and access to components not readily available via standard Lebanese imports.^[15]^[16]^[17]

Context of Israel-Hezbollah conflict

Hezbollah is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States since 1997, Israel, Australia, and the European Union for its military wing.^[18]^[19] The hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah escalated following the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed approximately 1,200 people and took over 250 hostages. In solidarity with Hamas, Hezbollah initiated cross-border attacks starting October 8, 2023, launching rockets, anti-tank missiles, and drones targeting civilian communities in northern Israel. By September 2024, Hezbollah had fired over 8,000 such projectiles, creating a persistent threat that rendered large swaths of northern Israel uninhabitable and displacing around 60,000 civilians from their homes.^[20]^[21] These attacks constituted an armed aggression against Israel, invoking the state's right to self-defense under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which preserves the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a member state, until the Security Council takes measures to maintain peace. International legal precedents, including the International Court of Justice's advisory opinions, extend this right to responses against non-state actors like Hezbollah when their actions equate to armed attacks, particularly given Hezbollah's embedding of military operations within Lebanese civilian infrastructure, which complicates proportionality but does not negate the defensive imperative.^[22] Israel's responses prioritized necessity and distinction, focusing on Hezbollah's command structure rather than indiscriminate retaliation. Prior to the pager explosions, Israel had demonstrated success in degrading Hezbollah's leadership through targeted airstrikes and assassinations, such as the July 30, 2024, killing of senior commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut—responsible for a deadly rocket attack on Majdal Shams—and earlier eliminations of figures like Ayman Nofal in October 2023.^[23] These operations, often conducted with precision munitions to limit collateral damage, followed a pattern of intelligence-driven strikes aimed at disrupting Hezbollah's ability to coordinate rocket barrages from southern Lebanon, where the group maintains an arsenal estimated at 150,000 rockets despite UN Security Council Resolution 1701's disarmament mandates.^[19] This approach underscored Israel's strategy of countering existential threats from a terrorist organization backed by Iran, without escalating to full-scale invasion until further provocations.

The Israeli operation

Infiltration of supply chain

The infiltration of Hezbollah's supply chain for the AR-924 pagers began as a multi-year intelligence operation attributed to Israel's Mossad, aimed at exploiting the group's deliberate avoidance of mainstream communication devices vulnerable to tracking.^[24] Hezbollah had shifted to pagers years earlier, distrusting smartphones and major brands like Motorola due to concerns over embedded surveillance capabilities, instead procuring from smaller or regional suppliers through layered evasion tactics such as proxy buyers and obfuscated orders.^[25] Mossad reportedly mapped these procurement patterns over an extended period, identifying opportunities to insert controlled devices into the network without arousing suspicion.^[26] To execute the penetration, Mossad established shell companies, including B.A.C. Consulting KFT (BAC Consulting Ltd.), registered in Hungary in May 2022 as a front posing as a legitimate European distributor and partial manufacturer.^[27]^[26] BAC obscured its origins through additional layered entities, generating modest reported revenue of approximately $725,000 in 2022 and $593,000 in 2023 to maintain a facade of routine operations.^[27] The firm mimicked partnerships with established pager brands, licensing the Gold Apollo trademark from its Taiwanese owner to brand the devices convincingly, thereby aligning with Hezbollah's preference for rugged, low-profile models from non-Western-dominant sources.^[28]^[24] BAC then coordinated production of the customized AR-924 pagers with an unwitting Taiwanese manufacturer, ordering thousands of units under the false Gold Apollo branding to integrate seamlessly into Hezbollah's supply channels.^[29]^[30] This approach leveraged the group's operational security protocols, which prioritized bulk acquisitions from ostensibly independent vendors, allowing the devices to reach Hezbollah operatives undetected over months prior to distribution in Lebanon and Syria.^[25] Gold Apollo publicly denied direct manufacturing involvement, stating it had only authorized its name for use by BAC, while Taiwanese authorities later concluded the core assembly occurred outside local firms under deceptive contracts.^[28]^[31]

Manufacturing and explosive integration

The explosives were integrated into the pagers during the manufacturing process controlled by the Israeli operation, with approximately 1 to 6 grams of pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a high explosive, concealed within the lithium battery packs.^[32]^[17] A thin sheet of PETN was typically sandwiched between battery cells or embedded in the battery assembly to maintain the device's outward functionality and evade detection by standard X-ray or visual inspections.^[17] This integration preserved the pagers' operational integrity for normal use, including message reception, while ensuring the explosive charge remained inert until remotely triggered.^[5] A similar sabotage technique was applied to the walkie-talkies, which were Icom IC-V82 models, where PETN was laced into the batteries to conceal the explosive material without compromising radio transmission capabilities.^[5]^[33] The design allowed the devices to function as intended during storage, transport, and initial deployment, with the explosives engineered for stability under typical handling conditions.^[6] This precision in concealment highlighted the operation's reliance on supply chain control to embed the charges at the production stage, rather than post-distribution tampering.^[34]

Triggering mechanism

The explosions were remotely triggered on September 17, 2024, at approximately 3:30 p.m. local time through the transmission of a specific coded message via the pagers' wireless paging network.^[35] This signal, attributed to Israeli intelligence operations by multiple security sources, was broadcast to simulate a routine operational alert, prompting recipients to retrieve and examine their devices.^[17] ^[29] Upon receipt, the pagers' internal circuitry decoded the embedded alphanumeric sequence, activating a concealed detonator—likely integrated into the battery or motherboard—that ignited the pre-planted explosive charge, such as PETN.^[17] The design exploited the device's standard message-processing and display functions to generate the necessary electrical surge or heat for initiation, ensuring detonation only upon exact code match.^[36] Built-in safeguards, including selective frequency tuning and delayed activation logic, prevented premature blasts from ambient signals or physical stress, with the pagers demonstrating reliability during months of prior distribution and use by Hezbollah operatives.^[1]

Sequence of events

On September 17, 2024, at approximately 3:30 p.m. local time, thousands of pagers detonated nearly simultaneously across Lebanon and parts of Syria in a coordinated operation targeting devices primarily used by Hezbollah operatives.^[37]^[2] The explosions occurred in multiple locations, including Beirut's southern suburbs (Dahiyeh), the eastern Bekaa Valley, southern Lebanon, and select areas in Syria, with blasts reported in public spaces, markets, vehicles, and private settings where users carried the devices close to their bodies.^[38]^[39] The detonations affected an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 pagers distributed to Hezbollah members for secure communication, though some devices were also carried by medics and civilians affiliated with or in proximity to the group.^[35]^[40] Users typically held the pagers near their faces or waists to view incoming messages, resulting in explosions that propelled shrapnel from the vicinity of the head, hands, and torso due to the devices' proximity.^[37]^[7] The synchronized nature of the blasts—triggered remotely and occurring within minutes—induced widespread immediate chaos, as explosions echoed in unison across urban and rural areas, prompting panic among bystanders and disrupting routine activities in markets and on streets.^[41]^[39] This timing and uniformity amplified the psychological impact, catching users off-guard during peak afternoon hours when many were engaged in daily operations.^[38]

Walkie-talkie explosions on September 18, 2024

On September 18, 2024, approximately 18 hours after the pager explosions, numerous Icom-brand walkie-talkies detonated simultaneously across Lebanon, with the majority of blasts occurring in Beirut and southern Lebanon.^[42]^[43] These two-way radios, employed by Hezbollah operatives for secure communications, exploded amid clusters of personnel gathered to evaluate the pager incident's aftermath, including at funerals and operational meetings, which maximized disruption to command structures.^[44] The devices featured an explosive charge similar in composition to those in the pagers but scaled up in quantity due to the walkie-talkies' bulkier design, producing blasts of greater intensity and more pronounced damage in affected areas.^[45] The Icom models involved, such as older variants no longer in active production by the Japanese firm, underscored the operation's exploitation of legacy supply chains for communication tools.^[46]

Casualties and immediate response

Death and injury toll

The pager explosions on September 17, 2024, resulted in 12 deaths and approximately 2,800 injuries across Lebanon, according to reports from Lebanese health authorities.^[47]^[48] Among the fatalities were civilians, including at least one child and medical personnel, alongside confirmed Hezbollah members.^[47]^[40] The subsequent walkie-talkie explosions on September 18, 2024, caused an additional 20 deaths and at least 450 injuries, as stated by the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.^[2]^[42] This brought the combined death toll to 32 and the injury total to over 3,250 from both incidents.^[2]^[48] Injury patterns showed a high concentration of trauma to the face, eyes, and hands, with nearly two-thirds of pager blast victims affected in these areas due to the devices' typical positioning during use or carrying, leading to widespread cases of blindness, finger amputations, and shrapnel embedding.^[48] Lebanese hospital data corroborated these trends, noting the explosive force and fragmentation consistent with small embedded charges.^[49]

Medical and emergency handling

Lebanese medical facilities encountered acute overload in the hours following the September 17, 2024, pager detonations, as surges of patients with blast injuries strained emergency capacities across Beirut and southern regions. Ambulances transported victims en masse, leading to triage bottlenecks and depleted supplies of surgical materials for ocular and maxillofacial interventions.^[50]^[51] Physicians described emergency departments overwhelmed by cases requiring immediate debridement, shrapnel removal, and stabilization, with the simultaneous blasts exacerbating coordination difficulties between hospitals.^[47] Injury patterns necessitated specialized handling, including high volumes of ocular surgeries for penetrating trauma and facial reconstructions for fragmentation wounds, as pagers exploded near users' faces during routine checks. Over 80% of cases involved the left eye or facial region, reflecting habitual right-handed pager use, while hand injuries often involved amputations from grasping the devices.^[49] Approximately one-third of examined eyes exhibited no light perception upon presentation, signaling probable irreversible vision loss distinct from dispersed rocket shrapnel patterns in prior conflicts.^[52] These proximity-based injuries demanded rapid, resource-intensive responses, including enucleations and corneal repairs, amid Hezbollah's operational embedding in populated areas that complicated victim categorization and site access for responders.^[35] The distributed simultaneity of explosions hindered unified emergency protocols, as dispersed incidents across urban centers outpaced local ambulance fleets and blood reserves, forcing ad hoc reallocations from ongoing conflict zones.^[53] External aid inflows remained constrained by border closures and hostilities, prioritizing self-reliant Lebanese Red Cross evacuations despite stretched personnel.^[54]

Attribution

Evidence implicating Israel

Forensic examinations of the exploded pagers conducted by Lebanese authorities identified residues of PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate), a high explosive concealed within modified batteries, consistent with materials documented in Israeli military applications.^[17] Supply chain analysis traced the devices to a Hungarian-registered shell company, BAC Consulting KFT, established under Mossad direction to pose as a distributor partnering with Taiwan's Gold Apollo manufacturer, enabling the insertion of 3-5 grams of explosive per unit along with undetectable detonators during production rerouting.^[5]^[55] Interviews aired by CBS News' 60 Minutes on December 22, 2024, featured two recently retired Mossad case officers who described the operation's inception in 2022, including the agency's interception of Hezbollah's bulk pager procurement, fabrication of rigged prototypes in Israeli facilities, and orchestration of sales through intermediaries to ensure delivery to over 5,000 targeted operatives by mid-2024.^[56] The agents outlined the triggering protocol: pagers were activated to display a coded Arabic message ("09.17 at 15:00") on September 17, 2024, initiating a dual-signal detonation via embedded circuits invisible to standard X-ray inspections.^[57] Declassified intelligence assessments reported by outlets citing Western officials indicated Israeli pre-notification to select allies, including the United States, hours before the detonations, specifying geographic and temporal parameters to facilitate civilian evacuations in non-target zones, with blast patterns showing containment to pager vicinities averaging 1-2 meter radii.^[24] Similar modifications were applied to walkie-talkies procured via a parallel Mossad-controlled supply path, exploding the following day through overcharge mechanisms mimicking battery failure.^[58]

Denials and confirmations

Israel maintained its longstanding policy of neither confirming nor denying involvement in covert operations, with officials refraining from direct comment on the pager explosions.^[2] Subsequent reports in Israeli media and statements from defense sources suggested tacit acceptance of responsibility, but no formal admission was issued by government spokespeople.^[24] Hezbollah promptly attributed the blasts to Israel, vowing severe retaliation without disputing the operational breach or its effects on members.^[38] The group described the incident as its "biggest security breach" amid ongoing hostilities and confirmed that several of its fighters were killed or wounded.^[38]^[59] Lebanese Information Minister Ziad Makary denounced the explosions as "Israeli aggression," framing them as a deliberate targeting of civilians and militants alike.^[38] United Nations human rights experts condemned the manipulation of devices as a "terrifying" violation of international law and urged an independent investigation, yet by October 2025, no binding UN mechanism had been activated to probe the events.^[60]^[7] Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah later acknowledged the attacks as crossing "all red lines" and delivering an "unprecedented blow," validating the targeted disruption to mid-level operational cadres dependent on the pagers for low-signature coordination.^[61] This admission underscored the explosions' precision in exploiting Hezbollah's shift to pagers for counterintelligence purposes, resulting in confirmed losses among field commanders and support personnel.^[38]

Controversies and legal analysis

Claims of international law violations

Critics, including United Nations human rights experts, have described the simultaneous detonation of pagers and walkie-talkies as a "terrifying" violation of international law, citing the attacks' potential to cause indiscriminate harm beyond intended military targets.^[60] The UN experts highlighted the explosions' reliance on manipulated civilian devices, arguing that such methods undermine protections under international humanitarian law (IHL) by endangering non-combatants in populated areas.^[60] Human Rights Watch documented at least 12 deaths from the September 17 pager explosions, including civilians such as children, and over 2,800 injuries, including to bystanders and medical responders.^[40] The organization contended that the widespread detonation in urban settings violated IHL principles of distinction—requiring separation of combatants from civilians—and proportionality, as the foreseeable civilian casualties appeared excessive relative to any military advantage.^[40] Similarly, Amnesty International asserted that the attacks' scale and use of portable devices carried by non-combatants, including in homes and markets, rendered them inherently indiscriminate, potentially constituting war crimes under the Geneva Conventions.^[7] Legal analyses from outlets aligned with human rights advocacy have invoked Article 37 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, claiming the embedding of explosives in pagers—devices typically associated with civilian or protected medical use—amounted to perfidy by feigning non-hostile intent to induce trust and vulnerability.^[62] This perspective posits that booby-trapping such objects transforms civilian items into unlawful traps, breaching prohibitions on treachery even if targeted at combatants.^[63] Amnesty International and UN officials have urged an independent international probe, with some advocating referral to the International Criminal Court to investigate command responsibility for perfidy and indiscriminate attacks.^[7]^[60] Media coverage from sources such as Al Jazeera has framed the incidents as an escalatory breach of norms, emphasizing civilian tolls—including at least nine child deaths across both waves—while attributing violations primarily to the attack method's uncontrollability in civilian-integrated environments.^[62] These narratives often highlight risks to medics and bystanders, such as emergency personnel injured while responding, as evidence of disproportionate collateral damage under IHL.^[40]

Defenses based on self-defense and targeting precision

Supporters of the operation argue that it constituted lawful self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter, responding to Hezbollah's cross-border attacks that began on October 8, 2023, following Hamas's invasion of Israel. Hezbollah launched over 12,400 projectiles toward Israeli territory by early October 2024, including unguided rockets that endangered and killed civilians in northern Israel, displacing approximately 60,000 residents.^[64]^[65] These sustained barrages, often fired from civilian areas in Lebanon, created an armed attack justifying anticipatory measures to neutralize the threat, as Hezbollah's arsenal—estimated at 150,000 rockets—posed an existential risk without conventional invasion.^[66] The pagers were targeted as military objectives because Hezbollah procured and distributed them specifically to operatives for secure operational communication, embedding them within its command structure rather than general civilian use. Intelligence operations infiltrated the supply chain, allowing sabotage of devices intended for low-level commanders and fighters, thereby disrupting Hezbollah's coordination without relying on broader airstrikes that could cause greater destruction.^[67] This precision mirrored historical precedents of supply-chain interdiction, such as Allied sabotage of German communications in World War II, prioritizing efficacy against an aggressor over symmetric restraint. Analysts contend that deeming such tactics unlawful ignores the causal reality of Hezbollah's own asymmetric methods, including embedding forces in populated areas to exploit civilian shields.^[68] Collateral effects were minimized relative to the operation's intent and Hezbollah's alternatives, with explosions calibrated for targeted injury to carriers—predominantly combatants—rather than indiscriminate blasts, achieving strategic disruption of Hezbollah's hierarchy while avoiding the scale of damage from the group's rockets, which have historically killed non-combatants without distinction. Legal assessments from military law experts affirm that the attacks satisfied proportionality and distinction principles under international humanitarian law, as the devices' military utility outweighed incidental harms, especially given Hezbollah's failure to segregate combatants from civilians.^[69]^[70] Critics' emphasis on device manipulation overlooks that functionality persisted for months post-infiltration, with detonation triggered only upon activation by intended users, underscoring deliberate precision over inherent booby-trapping.^[66]

Aftermath

Impact on Hezbollah

The pager and walkie-talkie explosions on September 17 and 18, 2024, respectively, resulted in the deaths of at least 32 Hezbollah members and injuries to over 1,000 operatives, primarily from shrapnel and blasts while handling the devices.^[71]^[38] These losses included field operatives and mid-level coordinators who relied on the pagers for secure, low-tech communication to circumvent Israeli electronic surveillance.^[72] The detonation of thousands of distributed pagers—intended as a countermeasure to mobile phone tracking—crippled Hezbollah's tactical communication network, compelling an abrupt shift to verbal couriers, landlines, and vetted alternatives, which reduced coordination efficiency.^[73] This disruption fostered internal paranoia, with operatives reportedly discarding or inspecting other electronics for tampering, eroding trust in the group's logistics and heightening operational caution.^[74]^[75] In the short term, the attacks halted routine Hezbollah activities along the Israel-Lebanon border, as the group prioritized damage assessment and personnel recovery, enabling Israeli forces to execute unchallenged strikes on command posts.^[76] Long-term, the operation exposed vulnerabilities in Hezbollah's procurement chain, where devices were infiltrated via shell companies and falsified manufacturing, prompting stricter vendor scrutiny and decentralized sourcing that strained resources.^[24]^[77] Israeli defense assessments by mid-2025 attributed a measurable decline in Hezbollah's border attack frequency and intensity to the initial device strikes, which degraded command structures and facilitated subsequent degradations, thereby bolstering northern Israeli security amid a fragile ceasefire.^[78]^[79]

Geopolitical repercussions

The pager explosions strained Iran's proxy network, as Tehran issued warnings of a "crushing response" against Israel but refrained from direct military escalation, opting instead for precautionary measures like the Revolutionary Guards' ban on pagers and other devices among its personnel.^[80]^[81] By late 2025, no major retaliatory strikes from Iran or its allies had materialized beyond limited Hezbollah rocket fire, reinforcing narratives of enhanced Israeli deterrence through precision operations that exposed vulnerabilities in proxy communications without prompting broader war.^[82] In Lebanon, the attacks amplified political pressures on Hezbollah's dominance, contributing to a year of compounded instability marked by escalated border clashes and economic contraction, with the group's operational setbacks hindering its role in domestic power-sharing amid pre-existing fiscal collapse.^[83] The United States, while expressing frustration over lack of prior notification from Israel, affirmed Washington's longstanding support for Israel's right to self-defense against Hezbollah threats, with officials like Secretary Blinken emphasizing restraint to avoid wider conflict but stopping short of condemning the operation.^[84]^[85] The incidents established a precedent for supply-chain sabotage as a tool of asymmetric warfare, prompting non-state actors like Iran's Revolutionary Guards to overhaul device procurement and usage protocols, while global analysts highlighted risks to commercial electronics networks, influencing stricter vetting in conflict zones worldwide.^[86]^[87] This shift underscored evolving regional dynamics, where technological interdiction deterred Hezbollah's low-tech adaptations and signaled to adversaries the perils of relying on outsourced hardware, potentially stabilizing the Israel-Lebanon border by raising the costs of sustained proxy aggression.^[88]

Revelations and investigations

Intelligence disclosures

Forensic examinations conducted shortly after the September 17, 2024, pager explosions identified pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a high-velocity explosive, as the primary agent embedded within the devices' batteries, with quantities estimated at 3-5 grams per pager sufficient to cause fragmentation and injury upon detonation.^[5] Lebanese authorities and independent analysts reported that the PETN was concealed in the battery compartments, triggered by remote signals mimicking legitimate messages, highlighting sophisticated supply-chain tampering predating distribution. In September 2024, Western security sources disclosed to Reuters that Israel's Unit 8200, the military's signals intelligence division, played a key role in the technical execution, including testing methods to integrate explosives during manufacturing without detection.^[89] Israeli media outlets, such as The Jerusalem Post, echoed these reports, attributing the operation's precision to Unit 8200's expertise in cyber and electronic warfare, though without official confirmation from Jerusalem.^[90] By late 2024, no Israeli government entity had publicly acknowledged involvement, maintaining a policy of ambiguity on such operations. A December 22, 2024, CBS 60 Minutes segment featured interviews with two recently retired Mossad agents who detailed the multi-year orchestration, revealing that the agency established shell companies in Europe and Asia starting around 2022 to pose as legitimate suppliers, ultimately infiltrating Hezbollah's procurement network with over 5,000 tampered pagers.^[25] The agents described embedding PETN-laced explosives during production overseas, with Mossad coordinating delivery to evade Hezbollah's security protocols, emphasizing the plot's genesis in response to the group's shift to low-tech devices amid smartphone surveillance fears.^[56] This account, corroborated by operational timelines, underscored the intelligence value derived from long-term human and technical infiltration, though the agents spoke anonymously to protect ongoing methods.^[91] Further revelations in a December 29, 2024, New York Times report highlighted collaboration between Unit 8200 and Mossad in championing the device-sabotage strategy, drawing on years of intercepted communications to map Hezbollah's logistics and predict device usage patterns.^[92] These disclosures affirmed the operation's intel-driven targeting but stopped short of full mechanics, as Israeli officials continued to withhold admission into 2025, citing national security.^[93] No subsequent leaks through mid-2025 altered the non-official status of attributions, with emphasis remaining on the plot's demonstration of supply-chain vulnerabilities exploited via persistent surveillance.^[94]

Ongoing inquiries and medical studies

Calls for an international investigation into the September 2024 pager and walkie-talkie explosions were issued by Lebanese authorities and supported by UN human rights experts, who described the incidents as potential violations of international humanitarian law due to their indiscriminate nature and civilian casualties.^[60] ^[7] However, these efforts have stalled amid geopolitical tensions, with no formal probe advancing under UN auspices or through the International Criminal Court, where Israel's non-ratification of the Rome Statute precludes automatic jurisdiction over its nationals.^[95] Peer-reviewed medical studies published in 2025 have quantified the explosions' traumatic effects, focusing on blast-induced injuries from the concealed PETN explosives. A February analysis in Eye detailed ophthalmologic trauma among survivors, noting over 2,900 injuries overall, with a high prevalence of severe ocular damage including corneal abrasions, retinal detachments, and permanent vision loss affecting hundreds, based on data from Lebanese hospitals treating Hezbollah-affiliated patients.^[96] Similarly, a March study in Injury characterized novel patterns of eye injuries from the synchronized detonations, linking fragmentation and pressure waves to approximately 500 cases of partial or total blindness, which has aided forensic reconstruction of the devices' explosive yield without relying on restricted supply-chain evidence.^[97] An August publication in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery further outlined facial and hand mutilations requiring extensive surgical interventions, with hospitalization rates exceeding expectations for low-yield blasts.^[49] Survivor recovery remains protracted, with reports from mid-2025 indicating ongoing challenges such as chronic pain, prosthetic needs, and psychological trauma amid Lebanon's overburdened healthcare system, where victims—including children and medical personnel—navigate overcrowded facilities and limited rehabilitation resources.^[98] Hezbollah's control over affected members has constrained comprehensive data collection, resulting in empirical gaps in long-term outcomes like infection rates or secondary disabilities, as independent access to cohort studies is impeded by security protocols.^[99] Israeli security assessments in 2025 have retrospectively evaluated the operation's efficacy, emphasizing its low logistical footprint—estimated at under $10 million for supply-chain infiltration—against disruption of Hezbollah's communication networks, though these analyses prioritize tactical metrics over humanitarian costs and face criticism for understating civilian exposures.^[100] Full empirical validation of injury forensics and investigative leads persists amid these restrictions, highlighting unresolved questions on explosive integration and remote triggering mechanisms.^[67]

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Sep 19, 2024 · A pager made by Gold Apollo. BBC The AR-924 pager was allegedly used in the attacks in Lebanon.
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Israel planted explosives in Hezbollah's Taiwan-made pagers, say ...
Sep 20, 2024 · Hezbollah fighters have been using pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli location-tracking, two sources ...
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Hezbollah Pagers Manufactured by Israeli Shell Company, Rigged ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Sources told The Times that Israeli shell company BAC Consulting was licensed to make Taiwanese-designed pagers, producing both legitimate devices and those ...
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Closing case, Taiwan prosecutors say Hezbollah exploding pagers ...
Nov 11, 2024 · Taiwan on Monday said it had closed a probe into pagers that exploded in Lebanon in September and caused a deadly blow to the Iran-backed ...
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How did Hezbollah get the pagers that exploded in Lebanon?
including a three-month port layover.
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Batteries of Lebanon walkie-talkies contained PETN explosive
Sep 20, 2024 · The batteries of the walkie-talkies used by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah that blew up this week were laced with a highly explosive compound known as PETN.
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Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say
Sep 17, 2024 · Israel carried out its operation against Hezbollah on Tuesday by hiding explosive material within a new batch of Taiwanese-made pagers imported into Lebanon.
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The synchronized pager explosions: an unprecedented pattern of ...
Aug 19, 2025 · On September 17, 2024, Lebanon experienced a mass-casualty event involving the simultaneous detonation of explosive-laden pagers, ...Missing: facts perpetrator
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How Lebanon's wireless paging system was weaponized to ... - VOA
Sep 19, 2024 · Expert says perpetrator likely rigged pagers with explosive material that was triggered by a radio signal.
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What we know about the deadly pager blasts in Lebanon | Reuters
Sep 18, 2024 · The detonations started around 3:30 p.m. (1230 GMT) in the southern suburbs of Beirut known as Dahiyeh and the eastern Bekaa valley - ...
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Hezbollah vows to punish Israel after pager explosions ... - Reuters
Sep 17, 2024 · The pagers exploded in southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut known as Dahiyeh and the eastern Bekaa Valley - all Hezbollah ...
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Thousands of Small Bombs Activated in Lebanon: 'The Pager Attack'
Sep 18, 2024 · On Tuesday, September 17th, at around 3:30 PM, a wave of explosions occurred within pagers used by Hezbollah operatives across Lebanon and Syria.
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Lebanon: Exploding Pagers Harmed Hezbollah, Civilians
Sep 18, 2024 · Thousands of pagers simultaneously exploded across Lebanon and parts of Syria on September 17, 2024, resulting in at least 12 deaths, ...
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Hezbollah blames Israel after deadly pager explosions in Lebanon
Sep 17, 2024 · Nine people, including a child, have been killed after handheld pagers used by members of the armed group Hezbollah to communicate exploded across Lebanon.Missing: code | Show results with:code
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Walkie-talkies explode in Lebanon day after deadly pager attack
Sep 19, 2024 · At least 20 people were killed and over 450 injured after walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon, the country's health ministry says, ...
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Hezbollah walkie-talkies exploded too, what to know about Israel's ...
Sep 18, 2024 · A day after the explosion of thousands of pagers, the detonation of walkie-talkies and other devices kills 14 people.
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Lebanon rocked by 2nd wave of exploding devices as Israel ... - PBS
Sep 18, 2024 · Israel's defense minister declares a "new phase" of war as Hezbollah officials and Lebanon's state media say explosions went off in Beirut ...
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Walkie-Talkies in Lebanon May Have Held More Explosives Than ...
Sep 18, 2024 · The two-way radios that exploded in Lebanon on Wednesday were larger and heavier than the pagers that blew up across the country on Tuesday, ...<|control11|><|separator|>
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Japan firm says it stopped making walkie-talkies used in Lebanon ...
Sep 19, 2024 · A Japanese handheld radio manufacturer has distanced itself from walkie-talkies bearing its logo that exploded in Lebanon, saying it ...
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Death toll from Hezbollah pager explosions in Lebanon rises to 12
Sep 18, 2024 · A girl said to have been killed by one of the exploding pagers was buried in the Bekaa Valley on Tuesday.
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Pager Explosion in Beirut: An Unprecedented Event
Oct 28, 2024 · As a result of the explosions, 2800 were wounded and 12 lost their lives. Almost two-thirds of the injuries were in the face, eyes, or hands.
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The pagers explosions in Beirut: Injury profiles, surgical care, and ...
Aug 4, 2025 · Recently, explosion of thousands of pager devices occurred in urban Lebanon. 1,2. The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health declared that the ...
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Doctors overwhelmed by blast injuries as civilian impact of device ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Doctors overwhelmed by blast injuries as civilian impact of device explosions sparks outcry. In Beirut, the streets are fraught with panic about ...
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Hezbollah pagers explode across Lebanon, causing nearly 3,000 ...
Electronic pagers belonging to members of the Lebanese group Hezbollah exploded simultaneously on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least nine ...<|separator|>
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Ocular injuries after the pagers explosion in Lebanon: A novel form ...
This study aims to investigate and characterize the nature and outcomes of ocular injuries resulting from the September 2024 pagers explosions in Lebanon.
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Beirut eye doctor describes 'devastating' injuries after blasts
Sep 20, 2024 · An eye doctor in Lebanon said he has treated some 40 to 50 people with serious injuries, including some who lost both eyes, after a wave of communication ...Missing: vision loss statistics
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Doctors Describe the Horror of Israel's Pager Attack in Lebanon
Sep 25, 2024 · Of the 160 patients who came into the emergency room, 140 suffered serious eye injuries. For almost two hours, AUBMC's head of ophthalmology ...Missing: ocular reconstructions
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Israel's Mossad rigged pager batteries with explosives before they ...
Sep 18, 2024 · The sources noted that the spy agency “rigged a quantity of the highly explosive material pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) in the devices' ...
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Israel's Mossad spent years orchestrating Hezbollah pager plot
Dec 22, 2024 · Retired Israeli case agents behind Mossad's boobytrapped pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon explain how they got Hezbollah to buy the ...Missing: Grim | Show results with:Grim<|separator|>
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How Israel pulled of its exploding pagers plot against Hezbollah
Dec 23, 2024 · CBS News' "60 Minutes" got an inside look at how Israel pulled off one of the most daring and sophisticated intelligence operations in ...Missing: Grim | Show results with:Grim
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Ex-Israeli agents reveal how pager attacks were carried out - BBC
Dec 23, 2024 · Men carry the coffin of a Hezbollah member who was killed in a pager blast (18/09/24) Reuters Dozens of people were killed and thousands injured in the attacks.
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Nine killed, 2,750 wounded across Lebanon as Hezbollah pagers ...
Sep 17, 2024 · Hezbollah official calls it the group's 'biggest security breach' in nearly a year of cross-border fire with Israel.Missing: admissions | Show results with:admissions
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Exploding pagers and radios: A terrifying violation of international ...
Sep 19, 2024 · ... pagers and radios to explode simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria as “terrifying” violations of international law.The attacks reportedly ...
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Hezbollah chief says Israel crossed 'all red lines' with attacks - BBC
Sep 19, 2024 · Hassan Nasrallah calls the killing of 37 people by exploding pagers and radios an "unprecedented blow".Missing: admits | Show results with:admits
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Do Lebanon explosions violate the laws of war? | Hezbollah News
Sep 18, 2024 · Experts say blasts potentially violate international humanitarian law, including ban on indiscriminate attacks.
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Killing With Military Equipment Disguised as Civilian Objects is Perfidy
Mar 20, 2015 · Perfidy is defined in Article 37 of First Protocol Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions (AP I) as killing, injuring, or capturing an ...<|separator|>
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Israel/Lebanon: Hezbollah Attacks Endangered Civilians [EN/AR/HE]
Mar 7, 2025 · The Israeli military released data on October 6, 2024, that approximately 12,400 projectiles were fired toward Israel from Lebanon between ...
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Hezbollah rocket attacks kill seven in northern Israel - BBC
Oct 31, 2024 · Israeli authorities say more than 60 people have been killed by Hezbollah rocket, drone, and missile attacks in northern Israel and the occupied ...
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Israel's Justified Force Against Hezbollah - City Journal
Oct 1, 2024 · Critics of the beeper attack would allow terrorists to blur the combatant/noncombatant distinction to advance their goals.<|separator|>
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Israel's Pager Attack was a Strategic Success - Just Security
Mar 11, 2025 · Analyst argues that Israel's pager operation against Hezbollah was not an indiscriminate attack under the laws of war.
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Israel's Pager Attack and Just War Theory | INSS
Nov 24, 2024 · So, the limited force of the pager explosions meant that many of the Hezbollah operatives hurt remained “un-neutralized,” not merely “un-killed.
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Exploding Pagers and the Law - Lieber Institute - West Point
Sep 18, 2024 · A large number of pagers used by Hezbollah personnel exploded in Lebanon on 17 September. This raises questions of weapons & targeting law.
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Pager bombs: Precision warfare takes a personal turn in Lebanon
Sep 18, 2024 · In the past 24 hours, nearly 3000 pagers carried by members of the terrorist group Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon.
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Hezbollah vows retaliation against Israel for deadly pager ... - CNN
Sep 18, 2024 · At least nine people were killed and around 2800 wounded in Lebanon in an attack targeting the pagers of Hezbollah members, the Lebanese ...
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Hezbollah thought pagers would be safer than mobiles - ABC News
Sep 17, 2024 · Hezbollah opted for using pagers instead of mobile phones as a way to avoid being tracked and spied on. But the devices have become the ...
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The Hezbollah pager attack not only disabled the group's ...
Sep 17, 2024 · The remote detonation of thousands of pagers carried by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon has not only disabled a key element of the militant group's ...
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Pagers to Spider's Web: Deep Intelligence and Low-Cost Weapons ...
Jul 31, 2025 · Israel's pager attack instilled fear and paranoia within Hezbollah, as operatives could no longer trust basic communication tools, disrupting ...
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Exploding pagers, psychological warfare: Israel's attack on Hezbollah
Sep 18, 2024 · The Lebanese government also held Israel responsible for the attack. However, Israel refrained from making any remarks. Israeli media reports ...
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Attacks in Lebanon: First pagers, now walkie-talkies | Reuters
Sep 18, 2024 · Hezbollah, which was thrown briefly into disarray by the pager attacks, said it had attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets, the first ...
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Mossad's pager operation: Inside Israel's penetration of Hezbollah
Oct 5, 2024 · Designed by Mossad, assembled in Israel. A photo taken on Sept. 18 in Beirut's southern suburbs shows the remnants of exploded Hezbollah pagers.
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From Pager Bombs to Power Politics: Lebanon's Unfinished ...
Oct 5, 2025 · “Israel has weakened Hezbollah to such an extent that the party needs to fundamentally rethink what Hezbollah is as an organization going ...
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A year after Israel's pager attack, can battered Hezbollah rebound in ...
Sep 17, 2025 · The double explosion of wireless devices that struck across Lebanon simultaneously last September left Hezbollah shocked and seemingly ...
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Iran warns Israel of 'crushing response' after attacks on Hezbollah
Sep 19, 2024 · Iran's Revolutionary Guard commander promises 'destruction' of Israel after communication device blasts.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard bans communication devices after ...
Sep 23, 2024 · Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has banned the use of pagers and other communication devices after the deadly attacks last week targeting its ...
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How Exploding Pagers Can Lead to Calm Along Israel-Lebanon ...
Sep 22, 2024 · Casualties on both sides could be high; the impact could be catastrophic. And, one should point out, there is no guarantee this bold initiative ...
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Lebanon's terrible year: From exploding pagers to Israeli occupation
Sep 17, 2025 · The pager attack in Lebanon kicked off a year that upended the country's political and military reality.Missing: involvement | Show results with:involvement
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Biden administration treads diplomatic tightrope after device attacks ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Deadly device blasts across Lebanon this week broadly believed to have been orchestrated by Israel have sparked concern and even outright condemnation.
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Blinken says US did not know about exploding pagers in Lebanon ...
Sep 18, 2024 · Secretary of State Antony Blinken denied U.S. involvement in the Lebanon pager explosions and urged restraint to avoid further conflict in ...
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Middle East pager attacks ignite fear of supply chain warfare - Politico
Sep 19, 2024 · Attacks on militants' wireless devices in Lebanon and Syria this week are amping up concern about ways in which the global electronics supply chain can be ...
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Exploding Pagers Deliver a Supply Chain Warning
Sep 21, 2024 · The lethal detonation of hand-held pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah militants this week in Lebanon demonstrated powerful spycraft.
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Pagers attack brings to life long-feared supply chain threat
Everyday electronics rigged to explode reflect the near-impossibility of securing modern, globalized electronics supply chains. September 19, 2024. 7 min.
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Hezbollah pager attack puts spotlight on Israel's cyber warfare Unit ...
Sep 20, 2024 · The source said Unit 8200 was involved in the technical side of testing how they could insert explosive material within the manufacturing ...
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Details of the Hezbollah pager explosions emerge
Sep 20, 2024 · Israel's secretive military intelligence Unit 8200 was involved in the planning, a Western security source told Reuters this week. Israel ...<|separator|>
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First look: "60 Minutes" reveals Mossad's pager secrets - Axios
This Sunday on "60 Minutes," Lesley Stahl interviews the recently retired Mossad agents who masterminded the exploding pager operation against Hezbollah.Missing: Grim | Show results with:Grim
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Behind the Dismantling of Hezbollah: Decades of Israeli Intelligence
Dec 29, 2024 · As it did, Hezbollah began looking for pagers hardy enough for combat conditions, according to eight current and former Israeli officials.
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Ex-Mossad agents detail exploding Hezbollah pager operation that ...
Dec 23, 2024 · Ex-Mossad agents detail exploding Hezbollah pager operation that 'broke' Nasrallah. Speaking to CBS's 60 Minutes, former spies reveal YouTube ...<|separator|>
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Hezbollah pager explosions put spotlight on Israel's cyber warfare ...
Sep 19, 2024 · The source said Unit 8200 was involved in the technical side of testing how they could insert explosive material within the manufacturing ...
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Was the pager explosion attack a war crime? The ICC's lead ... - NPR
Sep 23, 2024 · NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Karim Khan, the lead prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, about the pager explosions and conflict in the Middle ...
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Ophthalmologic trauma following the pager explosion in Lebanon
Feb 14, 2025 · At 15:30 local time (12:30 GMT) on 17th September 2024, about 5000 pagers belonging to the Lebanese people exploded in Beirut and many other ...Missing: ongoing | Show results with:ongoing
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Ocular injuries after the pagers explosion in Lebanon: A novel form ...
Mar 16, 2025 · This study aims to investigate and characterize the nature and outcomes of ocular injuries resulting from the September 2024 pagers explosions in Lebanon.Missing: facial | Show results with:facial
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Survivors of Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah last year struggle to ...
Aug 6, 2025 · At that moment on Sept. 17, 2024, thousands of pagers distributed to the Hezbollah group were blowing up in homes, offices, shops and on ...
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A year on, Lebanese maimed in Israel's pager attacks on long road ...
Sep 17, 2025 · On September 17, 2024, thousands of pagers carried by members of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah exploded simultaneously, followed the next day ...
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The Impact of Israeli Cyber Operations on Hezbollah
Apr 2, 2025 · Israel's use of AI in its cyber operations against Hezbollah highlights the importance of technological superiority, cost-effectiveness, and ...Missing: benefit | Show results with:benefit