Pagers are an important part of Hezbollah’s communication strategy.
Since mobile phones are too sensitive, people have long since given them up, as evidenced by the 1996 murder of a Hamas bombmaker in Israel.
However, the scope of today’s strikes was alarming.
Hezbollah members were detonated next to their kids, in their cars, on the street, in stores, and at home.
Reports of incidents came from all around Lebanon, including the Bekaa Valley and Beirut. even from Syria, a neighbor.
Tehran’s envoy to Lebanon was verified to be among the injured by Iranian official television.
Even while each explosion was tiny, some of them caused severe damage.
One especially gory picture was a young man who appeared to be dead, slumped in a barber’s chair with blood all over his face.
Following over a year of low-level warfare between Israel and Hezbollah, these attacks will severely impair Hezbollah’s morale, communications, and manpower.
Although Israel has not yet spoken, this was clearly its effort; no other nation or group could have the drive or ability to do anything of this nature.
This is the most recent in a string of intricate military and covert operations that began in mid-July and included assassinations in Tehran and Beirut in addition to a long-range airstrike in Yemen.
