Israel turns the pager on terror with ruthless psychological masterstroke against Hezbollah
By Miranda Devine
Published Sep. 18, 2024
Updated Sep. 19, 2024, 9:07 a.m. ET
Nobody likes to see humans writhing in agony, but Israel’s daring operation to simultaneously explode pagers in the pockets of Hezbollah terrorists and their associates this week was a ruthless tactical masterstroke.
In bloody scenes captured on video on social media, men could be seen shopping or sitting on a motorbike one minute and on the ground moaning and covered in blood the next.
At least 12 people were killed and nearly 3,000 people were injured in Lebanon on Tuesday, and a similar detonation of Hezbollah walkie-talkies the next day killed another 20 people and injured 450.
In Hezbollah’s macho culture, the psychological blow of their warriors and officials getting their genitalia blown up is acute, and so is the signal sent to Iran, that no communications devices are safe after Israel managed to kill Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh under the noses of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Tehran by tracking his whereabouts via his cellphone.
Hence the terrorists’ migration to more primitive devices like pagers.
The ingenious “Paging Hezbollah” operation was about as surgical a strike on terrorists as you could get, although Lebanese authorities claimed two innocent children were killed in Tuesday’s attack, more tragic victims of a pointless war that Hamas started on Oct. 7 last year.
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