While Israel continues its violent campaign against the Palestinian people, they have now been accused of executing a plot involving exploding pagers in Lebanon. They were detonated on September 17th killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 3,000 more, many of them civilians. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00While the war in Gaza continues, Israel has now been accused of executing a plot involving exploding pagers.
00:07Reuters reports that the country's espionage branch, Mossad, has long conducted operations on foreign soil.
00:13This time, it is alleged that they planted explosives in pagers months ago, which were then imported by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:20They were detonated on September 17th, killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 3,000 more, many of them civilians.
00:28It is now being reported that Hezbollah switched to pagers for security reasons.
00:32But how could something so small pack enough explosives to kill?
00:35Well, experts tell Reuters, pagers already contained several of the components necessary for a small bomb.
00:41You need a container, a battery, a triggering device, a detonator, and an explosive charge.
00:47In this particular case, the pager already, I mean, a typical pager would already have the first three of this list.
00:55They went on to say that other pre-designed components could round out the explosives easily,
01:00something made easier by the fact that, quote, there is no single entity controlling the full supply chain.
01:05It is now being reported that a second wave of explosions have now injured countless more, this time with exploding walkie-talkies.