Comment by alickz
> Anyone who got resold / loaned those devices
Aren't the pagers specifically for transmitting Hezbollah instructions / orders?
Why would a Hezbollah member sell/loan such a device to a non-Hezbollah member?
> Anyone who got resold / loaned those devices
Aren't the pagers specifically for transmitting Hezbollah instructions / orders?
Why would a Hezbollah member sell/loan such a device to a non-Hezbollah member?
Beacuse it's a pager, and they're rather common in most of Egypt, Turkey and middle east countries for medical support and first-time responders.
I mean, the reason Hezbollah switched to those devices was also because they're readily available in the country.
I'd be extremely, extremely surprised if this was a "targeted" shipment rather than a generic batch that was expected to a certain degree to be bought by hezbollah members.
Prepare to be surprised. Hezbollah ordered 5000 pagers specifically for distribution to only their own terrorists for coordinating group activities.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-exp...
Because they're not S.P.E.C.T.R.E. It's a separatist group whose more extreme members resort to terrorism, not much differently than IRA, Basque Nationalists or Bosnian Indipendentists.
Their supply channel is the same as the civilian population, they're not shopping for vibranium from Hydra.
It would be interesting if we could trace the local distributor for those devices and see where they were available at retail, it would probably match the areas in Lebanon where members of hezbollah are commonly located.