“KABOOM”

This was an ingenious plan, paging the members of Hezbollah concurrently. There is only one organization that could pull off such a caper. The result being a devastation to the communication abilities of Iran’s funded terrorist organization. Israel has not claimed responsibility for this caper, but from all accounts it was attributed to them.

Hungary-based pagers manufacturing company BAC Consulting, which manufactured the pagers that exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday, was an Israeli shell company, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing three intelligence officers.

The three officers further said that an additional two shell companies were created, which, the NYT noted, assisted in hiding the identities of those involved in manufacturing the pagers.

The report explained that while the company did produce regular pagers for other clients, those manufactured for Hezbollah were “produced separately, they contained batteries laced with explosive.”

Nasrallah bans use of cell phones

Moreover, according to three defense officials, Nasrallah also ordered Hezbollah officers to carry pagers at all times and banned cell phones from organization meetings. He also reportedly ordered officers to refrain from communicating any details concerning Hezbollah’s movements and plans through cell phones.

Since his speech, there was a significant increase in shipments of pagers to Lebanon, with thousands reportedly arriving and being distributed to Hezbollah officers and their allies, the New York Times cited two American intelligence officials.

Hezbollah leader to deliver speech in wake of deadly attacks

We’re expecting Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, to deliver an address about the exploding devices attacks at 15:00 BST.

Nasrallah has yet to speak publicly about the device explosions, but in a statement on Wednesday, Hezbollah vowed to continue its support for Hamas in Gaza and said Israel faced a “difficult reckoning”.

The Lebanon-based militant group said it had used rockets to target Israeli artillery positions near the Israel-Lebanon border and in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Hezbollah official also told Reuters that the device explosions were the “biggest security breach” for the group since its conflict with Israel stepped-up after the 7 October attacks that Hamas launched on Israel from Gaza.

Nasrallah, 64, is a Lebanese cleric and has been head of Hezbollah since 1992, overseeing it for most of the group’s existence.