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In ShortHezbollah members use low-tech means of communication to avoid Israeli trackingIsrael yet to respond to Hezbollah's accusations of carrying out pager attacksExplosions kill 9 people in Lebanon, some 3,000 others also injured..
Thousands of pagers and other wireless communication devices that were used by Hezbollah members exploded simultaneously in various locations across Lebanon for about an hour on Tuesday..
The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, which has engaged in cross-border skirmishes with Israel since the war with Hamas erupted in October 2023, is known to use pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli location tracking...
Israel has, in the past, conducted cyber operations and targeted assassinations involving communications devices.. . Hezbollah is known to use a variety of communication methods, including encrypted cell phones, radio systems and pagers for secure internal communication..
Israel would likely have gathered information, either through human intelligence or through tracking the communications flow, to confirm that specific pagers were being used by Hezbollah operatives..
