Israel has launched an offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon. As thousands of pagers and electronic devices exploded across Lebanon in two days, experts suggested that Israel's ultimate aim through these detonations was much bigger than just targeting Hezbollah foot soldiers. These are the five big goals that Israel scored.

According to several media reports, Israel had reserved the pager blasts as an opening blow to Hezbollah in case of an all-out war. However, these plans were accelerated when a couple of Hezbollah members became suspicious of the plot and raised the matter with their superiors.

Pagers and walkie-talkies, considered outdated modes of communication, were weaponised for a one-of-its-kind attack in Lebanon, resulting in a series of explosions for two consecutive days, killing 32 and injuring over 3,000 across the country.

Since Hezbollah has reduced the use of mobile phones by its forces because Israel can easily detect and target them, pagers have increasingly become the preferred messaging device within the group.

Lebanon has blamed Israel for the sabotage of thousands of pagers that caused them to explode, killing several people and wounding thousands, in an apparent bid to weaken the Islamist militant group Hezbollah.

One Western security source says that a military unit that is not part of the spy agency involved in the development stage of the operation.

The Lebanese government, alongside Hezbollah, has blamed Israel for the attack, calling it "criminal Israeli aggression

Israel and its intelligence agency Mossad have been accused of orchestrating a series of explosions involving thousands of pagers in Lebanon that have now killed 14 people and injured nearly 3,000 after a second day of explosions in Beirut and other cities in Lebanon.

Thousands of pagers used by members of the militant group Hezbollah simultaneously exploded in parts of Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 2,700.

The mass pager attack against Hezbollah in Lebanon has turned the spotlight on Israel's secretive Unit 8200, the Israel Defense Forces' intelligence unit, which a Western security source said was involved in planning the operation.

Thousands of pagers exploded within seconds across the Lebanon yesterday in a synchronized attack targeting the US-designated terror group Hezbollah.

By targeting so many pagers at the same time, Israel demonstrated technical prowess and partly restored the aura of its intelligence agencies. But its long-term intent is unclear.

A pager is a small, battery-operated radio receiver that set off an alert when it receives a proper signal and displays a numeric message, like a phone number, or a short text message.

Three thousand pagers used by terrorist group Hezbollah exploded yesterday in an audacious precision attack. Just how was the attack carried out?

An anonymous reader shares a report: Israel blew up thousands of two-way personal radios used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon in a second wave of an intelligence operation that started on Tuesday with the explosions of pager devices, two sources with knowledge of the operation told Axios. The second...

The alleged Israeli attack on members of Hezbollah via their pagers is another ominous development propelling the Middle East towards a full-scale regional war.

In response to Israel's next-level warfare, Hezbollah changed its tactics. Cell phones, which may trace a user's location, have been prohibited on the battlefield instead more old-fashioned methods such as pagers and couriers are being used. | OpIndia News