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Israel Started to Plan Pager Blast Operation Against Hezbollah Back in 2022 - Reports

© AP Photo / Ohad ZwigenbergIsraeli soldiers are seen near the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel, Monday, March 4, 2024
Israeli soldiers are seen near the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel, Monday, March 4, 2024 - Sputnik International, 1920, 06.10.2024
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israel has begun planning an operation to blow up pagers belonging to Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah back in 2022, The Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing Israeli, Middle Eastern and US officials, familiar with the events.
Israeli intelligence service Mossad began inserting mined and wiretapped radios into Hezbollah back in 2015 and for nine years has been using the devices to monitor the movement's communications, the officials told the media.
The pager sales pitch was proposed to Hezbollah by a trusted marketing official with links to Taiwanese Apollo company, who had established her own company and gained a license to sell a line of Apollo devices, the sources said, adding that sometime in 2023, she offered the movement a deal on procuring AR924 pagers.
In 2023, Hezbollah began importing small AR924 pagers from Apollo, which were actually produced, assembled and equipped with a powerful explosive by the third company in Israel at Mossad’s orders, the media reported.
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The Israeli officials believe that Hezbollah members could have disassembled the devices to check their safety, but the explosives were well-hidden and not discovered.
A series of electronic device explosions rocked Lebanon from September 17-18, killing 37 people and injuring over 3,000 others. The Lebanese government and Hezbollah blamed Israel for the attack. The Israeli authorities have neither confirmed nor denied their role in the explosions.
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