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Israel carried out its operation against Hezbollah on Tuesday by hiding explosive material within a new batch of Taiwanese-made pagers imported into Lebanon, according to American and other officials briefed on the operation.

The pagers, which Hezbollah had ordered from Gold Apollo in Taiwan, had been tampered with before they reached Lebanon, according to some of the officials. Most were the company’s AP924 model, though three other Gold Apollo models were also included in the shipment.

The explosive material, as little as one to two ounces, was implanted next to the battery in each pager, two of the officials said. A switch was also embedded that could be triggered remotely to detonate the explosives.

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  • Icalasari@fedia.io
    3720·
    2 months ago

    What is Israel trying to do, beat Canada’s record for war crimes added to the Geneva Convention?

    Or are they trying to piss off the Middle East enough to get them all to bomb them all at once so they can demand the US send in troops to protect them, dragging the world ever closer to WWIII because their sociopathic leader wants to genocide a people to get real estate?

      • Icalasari@fedia.io
        253·
        2 months ago

        Canada in WWII basically invented a bunch of entirely new warcrimes

        There’s a reason Nazi Germany was terrified of Canadians and convinced they were demons sent from hell itself

        EDIT: Got which world war wrong. Nazi Germany feared Canada because of what Canada did in WWI