Comment by tw04

>I already wonder if this was anything that was planted in the devices perviously

That seems to be the case with almost complete certainty. They said it was a new batch of pagers that the targets/victims/whatever you choose to call them received in the last few months.

>The pagers that detonated were the latest model brought in by Hezbollah in recent months, three security sources said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-m...