Israel’s Mossad orchestrated a covert operation by planting explosives in 5,000 pagers used by Hezbollah. Detonations from these pagers, containing up to 3 grams of explosives each, resulted in nine deaths and nearly 3,000 injuries across Lebanon. The explosive devices were activated by a coded message, marking a significant security breach for Hezbollah. The incident, involving pagers made by a European company under Gold Apollo’s brand, represents one of the group’s largest counterintelligence failures in decades. Hezbollah vows retaliation as tensions with Israel escalate.
