Key Points
The pagers used by Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, with no GPS capabilities, no microphones and cameras, were meant to avoid Israeli surveillance..
Instead, they turned out to be killer devices as several pagers detonated across Lebanon within a span of 30 minutes on Tuesday, leaving nine dead and over 3,000 wounded...
Experts and former intelligence officials have called it a prime example of a "supply chain attack", which involves infiltrating a supplier and placing a small amount of explosives inside the new pagers...
According to the book "Rise and Kill First", published in 2018, Israeli intelligence forces have a decades-long history of using communication devices like cell phones to target their enemies...
Around 24 years later, another Israeli agency, Shin Bet, used the same modus operandi to snuff out Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash, who was behind several suicide bombings that killed around 100 Israelis...
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