The following is some information I have gathered from various reports regarding the horrific, sadistic terror attack carried out in Lebanon and parts of Syria Tuesday yesterday afternoon when the Zionist entity simultaneously activated pagers used by Hezbollah. This resulted in the deaths of eight people, including a young girl along with injuries to approximately 3,800 people with many apparently being maimed..
According to an initial Lebanese News and Updates report shared by
on her Telegram channel yesterday afternoon,The pagers used by Hezbullah detonated the same time everywhere.
Hezbullah fighters started to fall to the ground everywhere, and blood covering them. Injures vary from low to critical.
Injuries are in the hundreds, if not more.
In the attack, a message was received on the pager, and then detonated shortly [afterward].
Pagers are usually read, after an encrypted message is received, which caused the severe injuries near the face and hand.
Blood is needed in all hospitals in Beirut, and south Lebanon. A lot of CCTV footage is circulating of the event. A massacre!
What a better pre-emptive attack than litterly taking out hundreds out of service in one day. Regardless, today's events are a blessing, that uncovered an exploit either technical limitation in these devices that overcharge them or spyware.
The following news report by Al Jazeera from Tuesday afternoon provided some of the first information released.
Eight killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers across Lebanon: Health Minister
More than a thousand people in Lebanon have been injured after hundreds of personal communication devices exploded simultaneously. It's believed most of the pagers were being carried by members of Hezbollah.
Hezbollah has called it one of the biggest security breaches since the group was formed. Emergency departments have been inundated with injured Hezbollah members and civilians. Local media report says the pagers simultaneously exploded across the country after being hacked by Israel.
The Health Ministry has appealed to all citizens who own pagers to dispose of them.
Vanessa shared the following statement on her Telegram channel.
Hezbollah Statement:
At approximately 3:30 PM on Tuesday, 17-09-2024, several communication devices known as "pagers" carried by a number of workers in various units and institutions of Hezbollah exploded. These explosions, whose causes still remain unknown, have resulted in the martyrdom of a young girl and two [of our] brothers so far, and have injured a large number of others with varying degrees of severity.
The specialized units in Hezbollah are currently conducting a comprehensive security and scientific investigation to determine the causes of these simultaneous explosions. Medical and clinical teams are also treating the wounded and injured in several hospitals across different Lebanese regions.
We ask Allah the Almighty to grant mercy to our righteous martyrs on the path to Al-Quds, and we pray for a swift recovery for the wounded. We also call upon our honorable people to be cautious of rumors and false and misleading information spread by some parties, which serve the psychological warfare in favor of the zionist enemy, especially as this is accompanied by speeches of intimidation and threats from the zionist enemy regarding the so-called changing of the situation in the north.
We affirm that the resistance, at all levels and across its various units, remains at the highest level of preparedness to defend Lebanon and its steadfast people.
Tuesday, 17-09-2024
13 Rabi' al-Awwal 1446 Hijri
Vanessa also shared the following on her Telegram channel last evening.
Vanessa Beeley, [17/09/2024 19:20]
Amal Saad. Lebanon
THREAD: Israel's unprecedented and highly sophisticated security operation today in which almost 3000 people have been injured so far, is by all means a massive blow to Hizbullah. This is all more so the case given that Hizbullah has always credited its performance in the July War, in part, to its primitive telecom network which relied on pagers and a fiber optic "internal" line. By neutralising Israel's technological superiority with "simplicity", to borrow Nasrallah's terms, Hizbullah prevented Israel from disrupting its command and control system.
Today’s attack effectively negates this advantage. The question is: why did Israel choose to prematurely play this card outside the context of all-out war, where a disruption of this magnitude could have changed the course of the war. Israel surely knows that Hizbullah will now review and amend its entire communication protocols, which suggests that Israel has other aims which could well fall short of full war.
The operation appears to have been designed as a major spectacle potentially serving dual purposes: to demoralise Hizbullah’s cadres and instil uncertainty while acting as a coercive deterrent aimed at altering their force positioning along the border.
Israel appears to have developed a unique military-security paradigm in its war on Lebanon: its daily assassination campaign via drone warfare blurs the line between prolonged security measures and traditional warfare. Today’s attack consolidates this novel paradigm which acts more as a substitute for all-out conventional war. At least for the time being.
I have noticed that many people, including Lowkey have said that the pagers in question were manufactured by Motorola and that Hezbolah were basically idiots for using them when they aren’t secure. According to Lebanon resident and geopolitical analyst Marwa Osman, that assumption is incorrect.
Please note that Gold Apollos is apparently going to sue
I am going to create a separate post about the Gold Apollo pagers used in the attack. In the meantime, please read the following report by
.What just happened in Lebanon?
Israeli terrorism has pushed an all-out war between Hezbollah and the Zionists another step closer.
By Palestine Will Be Free • September 18, 2024
In an act of pure terrorism, Israel rigged thousands of communication devices (known as pagers, which were in use before mobile phones became ubiquitous) used by Hezbollah operatives and exploded them simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday evening. Nine deaths have been reported so far, including a 10-year-old girl, while thousands are admitted in hospitals across Lebanon. More than 400 people are reported to be in serious condition. Many of those injured have lost limbs and parts of their face as they were reading the devices when they exploded.
The nature of these thousands of simultaneous terror attacks meant that anyone anywhere near these rigged devices was in mortal danger.
Videos and photos emerging from Lebanon have shown how unsuspecting people were either hurt grievously or lost their lives. One video shows a man shopping for fruits when the device exploded either in his pocket or a bag he was carrying, causing him to fall on the floor and in terrible pain as nearby shoppers flee.
Another video shows a man checking the device in his pocket at a cashier when it goes off, causing him to fall violently.
Within hours of the simultaneous attacks, Hezbollah issued a statement apprising the incident:
At approximately 3:30 PM on Tuesday, 17-09-2024, several communication devices known as “pagers” carried by a number of workers in various units and institutions of Hezbollah exploded. These explosions, whose causes still remain unknown, have resulted in the martyrdom of a young girl and two [of our] brothers so far, and have injured a large number of others with varying degrees of severity.
The specialized units in Hezbollah are currently conducting a comprehensive security and scientific investigation to determine the causes of these simultaneous explosions. Medical and clinical teams are also treating the wounded and injured in several hospitals across different Lebanese regions.
In a later statement, the Lebanese resistance group laid the blame on the “Israeli enemy”:
After examining all the facts, current data and available information about the sinful attack that took place this afternoon, we hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression that also targeted civilians and led to the martyrdom of a number of people and the injury of a large number with various wounds.
It is important to emphasise that Hezbollah isn’t an exclusively fighting force. It is a legitimate political party with multiple members in the Lebanese parliament. It runs civil institutions like hospitals, schools, and charities, with civilian workers who are all Hezbollah employees.
The Israeli attack didn’t differentiate between a Hezbollah fighter and a Hezbollah hospital employee. The 10-year-old dead girl was likely playing with her parent’s pager when it blew up and killed her. This was an indiscriminate attack, a textbook definition of terrorism.
There is still no clarity over how the operation was executed by the Israelis, whether they carried out some kind of a hack or explosives were implanted on all such devices.
Notably, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has repeatedly warned his cadre against using mobile phones for their potential to be used as surveillance devices to detect their locations. In his address on February 13 this year, he called them a “deadly agent”:
The mobile phone is a listening device, so we ask our brothers in the border villages and all of the south, especially the fighters and their families, to do without their mobile phones for the preservation and safety of people’s blood and dignities. The mobile phone is a deadly agent that provides specific and lethal information.
However, his warnings didn’t say anything about implanted explosives on pagers or their potential to be rigged in such a way that they would dangerously explode.
Former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden estimates that the series of simultaneous explosions are a result of implanted explosives. He wrote on Twitter:
As information comes in about the exploding beepers in Lebanon, it seems now more likely than not to be implanted explosives, not a hack. Why? Too many consistent, very serious injuries. If it were overheated batteries exploding, you’d expect many more small fires & misfires.
According to musician, researcher, and pro-Palestine activist Lowkey, the exploding devices were manufactured by Motorola, a company in bed with the Israeli defence establishment. In a Twitter thread, he explained the deep entrenchment between Motorola and the Israeli security apparatus. The main takeaway is that Motorola in collaboration with the Israeli military built a network in-house use that would “prevent counter-surveillance by resistance forces in the region.”
The details of this case of exploding devices will likely only be revealed once Hezbollah conducts its investigations.
Israeli propagandist and pretend-journalist Barak Ravid, who previously had a stint with the IDF and was an Israeli army reservist until March 2023, wrote in Axios that the terror attacks were green-flagged by Netanyahu and senior Israeli ministers:
The operation was approved earlier this week during security meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior members of his cabinet and the heads of the security services, a source with knowledge said.
It took place a day after U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein visited Israel and warned Netanyahu of the consequences of a major escalation in Lebanon.
On Tuesday, Netanyahu and Israel’s Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant spent several hours at the IDF command center in Tel Aviv, an Israeli official said.
Prelude to an all-out war?
This marks the most serious escalation yet since Hezbollah and Israel started a daily exchange of fire on October 8 last year. This is as close as one can get short of an open declaration of war, which Israel already sort of did on Monday, when Netanyahu added the return of settlers in the Israeli north as one of his war goals.
According to The Times of Israel:
“The safe return of the residents of the north to their homes” has now been added as a fourth objective to the war, the PMO said in a statement.
“Israel will continue to act to achieve this goal,” the statement said following a late-night meeting of the security cabinet in Tel Aviv.
The only way for the settlers to return to their homes would be the end of the genocide in Gaza. Hezbollah has made it abundantly clear time and again that it opened its support front for the Palestinian resistance in Gaza; the day Israel closes its Gaza slaughterhouse, Hezbollah’s guns will fall silent and Israeli squatters in the north could go back to their stolen dwellings in the historic northern Palestine.
However, Israel has shown no appetite for a ceasefire — continuously foiling any chance of reaching an agreement with the Palestinian resistance for an exchange of prisoners — and has continued to escalate tensions with Hezbollah. In such a situation, the only possibility of the settlers returning to the north would be a decisive win in a war against Hezbollah.
In effect, Netanyahu wants a full-scale war with Hezbollah. This latest escalation appears to be a step in just such a direction. The build up has been there all week.
A report in The Times of Israel from on September 14 said that top Israeli defence officials remain keen on “a major operation” in Lebanon: “Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF chief Herzi Halevi this week warned that Israel needed to turn its focus to Lebanon and prepare for a major operation.” The paper added: “An unnamed security source told Channel 12 news Friday that Israel ‘should prepare for a long war’ in the north that could incur heavy costs.”
Two days later, Israeli war minister Gallant told US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin that a war is imminent in so many ways. “The possibility of a settlement in the north is passing. Hezbollah continues to tie itself to Hamas. The direction is clear,” Gallant told Austin.
Yet Gallant’s head has been on the chopping block because he isn’t belligerent enough for a war with Hezbollah.
Recent history
Israel has been keen on launching a full-scale war with Hezbollah for months, but the simmering tensions have remained relatively contained as the two sides have exchanged daily blows. The Israelis have killed over 400 Hezbollah fighters since the Lebanese resistance opened its support front for the Palestinian resistance in Gaza on October 8. In return, Hezbollah’s attacks on the Israeli north has rendered the region a veritable ghost town as hundreds of thousands of squatters have fled and are being rehabilitated in various hotels across Israel.
Tensions have heightened every now and then as Israel has continued a campaign of assassinating top Hezbollah officials. The killing of top commanders Abu Talib and Hajj Abu Nimah in June and July, respectively, saw intense retaliation from Hezbollah as it increased its area of attacks and scorched northern Israel with intense firing.
But it didn’t deter the genocidal Israelis. They subsequently killed Nasrallah’s right-hand man Fuad Shukr on July 30 by bombing a residential building in the Dahiye suburb of Beirut. This time Hezbollah’s retaliation came three weeks later when on August 25 it launched over 300 low-cost rockets to overwhelm Israeli defences before firing drones to their intended high-value military targets in Glilot and Ein Shemer. The former houses the elite Unit 8200 while the latter is an air base.
The extent of the damage caused by Hezbollah’s strikes were never made public, as Israel put a gag order on reporting on the events of the day. However, it has been suspected that the damage was significant. A report in the Lebanese outlet Al Mayadeen, citing “European security sources” said that Hezbollah’s attacks killed 22 officials and injured dozens more.
The true extent of the damage is unlikely to be revealed anytime soon, but the subsequent resignation of Brig. Gen. Yossi Sariel, the commander of the IDF’s Unit 8200, was interpreted as an admission of significant damage caused by the August 25 operation.
Nasrallah declared the attacks — which he termed the “Day of Arbaeen” operation — a success.
What happens next?
Israel has undoubtedly hurt Hezbollah considerably with its terrorism today. It’s unlikely that the Lebanese resistance was expecting its closed communication channel to be compromised to such a degree that it would be exploited so spectacularly. Hezbollah will still need some time to assess the full scale of its losses and intelligence failure that led to such an unprecedented attack.
Faced against an immoral, unethical, terrorist organisation masquerading as a country, Hezbollah has shown considerable restraint for nearly a year. It is unlikely that it will take its gloves off now, without a full assessment of its failures.
Amal Saad, a historian who has extensively researched Hezbollah, believes that today’s Israeli attack is supposed to act as a deterrent for the Lebanese resistance against launching a full-scale war. “The operation appears to have been designed as a major spectacle potentially serving dual purposes: to demoralise Hizbullah’s cadres and instill uncertainty while acting as a coercive deterrent aimed at altering their force positioning along the border,” she wrote on Twitter.
Axios’s pretend-journalist Ravid outlined the same thinking on the Israeli side:
The Israeli operation was aimed at undermining Hezbollah’s confidence and creating a feeling in the ranks of the militia that it is totally penetrated by Israeli intelligence services, the source said.
As has been the norm with the members of the Axis of Resistance when dealing with Israeli terrorism over the past year, Hezbollah’s response is inevitable. It said as much in its communique announcing Israel’s hand in the terror attacks:
This treacherous and criminal enemy will certainly receive its just punishment for this sinful aggression, from where it expects it or not, and Allah is witness to what we say.
It remains to be seen when that “just punishment” comes and whether it sets the Middle East alight after being on the burner for nearly a year.
I will leave off with Dimitri Lascaris’s interview with Beirut-based, geopolitical analyst Laith Marouf regarding “the victims of the attack, the means by which it was perpetrated, and the likely response of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon.”
I highly recommend that you tune into UK Column News today, Wednesday September 18th at 1pm GMT where Vanessa Beeley along with Mike Robinson and Charles Malet will likely lead with a discussion regarding this horrific attack, the seeming “success” of which will most likely embolden the Zionist entity.
Immoral and evil acts beyond comprehension.
Couldn’t help thinking of the digital communication gadgets we all carry, or stand next to, every day? Remember the emergency alarm signal being tested in the UK?
Doesn’t bear thinking about.
In a macabre way, in this heinous act, Bibi showing their hand to save his own neck is maybe a heads up for all of us to bin the gadgets?
There was a pager attack on Tuesday, but on Wednesday, an assortment of electronic devices were targeted including cellphones, laptops, solar panels, fingerprint machines, car batteries, walkie talkies, and anything with a lithium battery, even devices that were several years old. There were also explosions in Syria. If Israel can cause any lithium battery to explode, even without preplanted explosives, then no one is safe.
So far about 5000 people in Lebanon were injured- blinded, or lost their fingers and hands, mostly, and 12 were killed.
The pagers were made by a Gold Apollo subsidiary in Hungary. Orban has ties to Israel. The Gold Apollo HQ in Taiwan denies any knowledge or complicity.
It was really stupid of Hezbollah not to get their pagers from Iran, Russia, or China.