Israel's Mossad has been accused of planting explosives in 5,000 pagers used by Hezbollah fighters, leading to detonations across Lebanon. The blasts killed nine people and injured nearly 3,000, including many of the group’s fighters and Iran’s envoy to Beirut. Hezbollah was using pagers as a low-tech means of communication to evade Israeli surveillance and location-tracking. Hezbollah vowed to retaliate against Israel, while Israeli officials did not comment on the incident. The operation exposed a major security breach for Hezbollah, highlighting Israeli intelligence's deep infiltration into the group.
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00:00It's Benzinga, and here's what's on the block.
00:03Israel's Mossad has been accused of planting explosives in 5,000 pagers used by Hezbollah
00:07fighters, leading to detonations across Lebanon.
00:11The blasts killed nine people and injured nearly 3,000, including many of the group's
00:15fighters and Iran's envoy to Beirut.
00:18Hezbollah was using pagers as a low-tech means of communication to evade Israeli surveillance
00:22and location tracking.
00:24Hezbollah vowed to retaliate against Israel while Israeli officials did not comment on
00:29the incident.
00:30The operation exposed a major security breach for Hezbollah, highlighting Israeli intelligence's
00:35deep infiltration into the group.