Israel created a cover company to produce pagers – media reports

Israel created a front company for the production of pagers with explosives, which were then delivered to Lebanon “The fresh York Times reported, citing 3 intelligence officials informed of the operation.

"Fortunately, BAC Consulting was a Hungarian company that had a contract to manufacture equipment on behalf of Taiwan's Gold Apollo company. In fact, it was part of an Israeli cover," the publication said.

Sources of the paper added that at least 2 another cover companies were created to hide the actual identity of the people who produced pagers – Israeli intelligence officers.

Speakers of the paper clarified that the pagers delivered to Lebanon contained batteries with PETN explosive. According to the newspaper, pagers began to be delivered to Lebanon in the summertime of 2022, but production was increased after leader Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah condemned the usage of mobile phones for safety reasons.

He feared that they could be hacked by Israel utilizing fresh technology and ordered members of the movement not to usage mobile phones to transmit traffic information and plans. Instead, Nasrallah insisted on utilizing pagers that, among another things, did not uncover the user's location or another information," the paper said.

Operation of communication equipment in Lebanon

On Tuesday, pagers broke out in various parts of Lebanon, wounding over 2,800 people and killing 12. The explosions continued the next day. According to the paper An-Nahar, this time the detonations active radios which the Shiite Hezbollah movement purchased almost simultaneously with the pagers about 5 months ago.

According to the latest reports, 20 people were killed and 450 injured. According to media reports, Hezbollah uses these devices as a closed communication strategy that is least susceptible to hacking and eavesdropping. The Lebanese movement and authorities placed Israel liable for the incident. "Hezbollah besides promised Tel Aviv a tough answer.

According to Reuters, Israeli intelligence agency Mossad planted explosives in 5 1000 Taiwanese pagers ordered by Hezbollah at Gold Apollo, and 3,000 devices activated and exploded simultaneously erstwhile code message was sent to them.

Taiwanese company said that the model of exploding pagers was produced and developed by BAC CONSULTING KFT, a company based in Budapest. In turn, the Hungarian company besides denied that it produced detonated devices. Axios portal reported, citing sources, that the operation of detonating communication devices was approved at meetings of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with members of his cabinet and heads of safety services.

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