Zironic 2 days ago

Now we don't yet know which radios exactly these are. But more likely then not, wouldn't these be from the exact same supply chain attack and maybe even come in the same shipment?

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  • tptacek 2 days ago

    I'm looking at pictures on my MidEast Twitter TL, with legit reporters RT'ing them, of palm-sized slim ICOM radios.

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    • Zironic 2 days ago

      According to Routers, they were bought at the same time as the pagers 5 months ago. So I would bet on it being the same supply chain operation that targeted both devices and maybe other devices that were bought at the same time.

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empath75 2 days ago

I mean just from a pure opsec perspective, you'd think they'd have popped them open to look right?

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realo 2 days ago

Thousands of civilians injured... very few Hezbollah dead.

Makes Israel look like a terrorist organization, IMHO.

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  • ineedasername 2 days ago

    There has been no statement or indication that the thousands of people injured were comprised in any significant proportion of civilians. Given that these pagers-- reportedly 5000 of them-- were purchased by Hezbollah directly and videos of their explosions show a minimal blast radius it is premature and, depending on motives, propagandistic to claim that the thousands of people injured were civilians.

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  • tromp 2 days ago

    Israel's bombing of Gaza made them look like a terrorist organization. I believe the majority of deaths and a significant fraction of injured in this attack are in fact Hezbollah members.

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  • raxxorraxor a day ago

    I doubt you would have been happy either way, but I think your statements about the injuries is also unsubstantiated.

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  • ineedasername 2 days ago

    There has been no statement or indication that the thousands of people injured were comprised in any significant proportion of civilians. Given that these pagers were purchased by Hezbollah directly and videos of their explosions show a minimal blast radius it is premature and, depending on motives, propagandistic to claim that the thousands of people injured were civilians.

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  • dralley 2 days ago

    >Thousands of civilians

    You have absolutely nothing on which to base the claim that these were civilians and not Hezbollah members.

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  • empath75 2 days ago

    You can't take Lebanon's report on who the injured were at face value. I've not doubt that innocent people were injured by this, but it's not _thousands_ of innocent people.

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  • flyinglizard 2 days ago

    Why would civilians have in their possession tactical communication devices of a military organization?

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    • Zironic 2 days ago

      Hezbollah like most other similar organisations is not a primarily military organisation even though they are a paramilitary one. The vast majority of the members of Hezbollah have non-military roles of various kinds.

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    • supermatt 2 days ago

      Civilians are shown to be in proximity of these devices when they are exploding. It appears that these devices were all triggered simultaneously, rather than waiting for individual targets to be isolated.

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    • fwip 2 days ago

      One reason is that Hezbollah is not a purely military organization, and has political, medical and educational arms. Another is that some of the reported casualties are the family of Hezbollah members.

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