Hezbollah Terrorists Pagers Blow Up!

BREAKING! At about 3:30 p.m. local time in Lebanon (8:30 a.m. ET here) somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 Hezbollah members were reportedly injured, according to Lebanese security sources of Lebanon. While nobody has taken credit for this act yet, Israel is assumed to have hacked their electronic pager devices and caused this event. Reports are that hundreds of Hezbollah member and other Iranian-linked advisor individuals are coming into the hospitals of Lebanon, some in critical condition. Technology experts think some kind of hack caused the encrypted pager’s batteries to all explode simultaneously.

As of 2:00 ET at the time of this writing, at least 2 have been reported as dead and thousands injured some having life-threatening injuries.

We first learned of this event on the X (formerly Twitter) platform early this morning with this post:

Hospitals in Beirut are reported to be rapidly overfilling with injured, most injuries are to the front legs and groin areas as seen in this post:

Lebanon is reported to be in chaos today as noted here:

Hezbollah began attacking Israel from the north from Lebanon after Hamas began attacks in the south on October 7, 2023, almost a year ago. On October 8, 2023, Hezbollah started firing guided rockets and artillery shells at Israeli positions in the north stating they did so to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians following the Hamas sneak attack on civilians in Israel that took place earlier.

Hezbollah, apparently thought it would be smart to switch from smartphones to communicating with older pagers and flip-phones from bygone years to avoid communications being hacked. Apparently that didn’t work out so well, as someone figured out how to cause the batteries to explode remotely.

CONCLUSION:

People can be both smart and stupid in their posts to social media at times like this.

Smart

One poster mentioned how a Jewish engineer of Canada by the name of Leo Sorel was the inventor of wireless communication which was interesting as well as ironic.

Stupid (followed by my Smart)

Another post was some dude laughing at the misfortunes of these Lebanese and how stupid they were using ancient technology that would allow this to happen. I responded, “Your smartphone has the same kind of battery and it can be hacked, too.”

Smart

One poster noted how, “This date and time will go down in history as changing the history of the world and war forever!”

Stupid

Another poster posted how, “They literally just blew their b*lls off!”

Smart

While Israel is getting blamed without taking credit for this, one astute poster noted, “How do you know it was Israel and wasn’t somebody else like the Taliban?” A valid point.

I can see a whole new market for “signal-proof cell phone cases” born today… kind of like the “blue roof market” after the Maui fires.

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