Rose Kelanic, who runs the Middle East program at Defense Priorities, a Washington think tank, said that if it’s confirmed the operation was carried out by Israel, the message is clear: “The Israelis just told Hezbollah that they’ve got their number, quite literally, by exploding these pagers.”
Kelanic said the pagers could have been detonated through purely cyber means by a computer virus or “worm.” The Israelis are believed to have done similarly when Iranian nuclear centrifuges were destroyed by making them spin so fast, they broke. Or the pagers could have been physically sabotaged at some point along the supply chain.
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