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:
BREAKING: Thousands of messaging pagers used by Hezbollah reportedly exploded all across Lebanon in a cyberattack straight out of a cyberpunk scifi novel.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 17, 2024
More than a thousand Hezbollah members have been reportedly injured, according to Lebanese security sources. pic.twitter.com/knnCUpSEO9
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:
🚨GRAPHIC: There is chaos in the hospitals in Beirut. Unofficial reports of 800-1200 casualties so far. pic.twitter.com/9yVu5X5KC8
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) September 17, 2024
Lebanon is reported to be in chaos today as noted here:
Absolute chaos in Lebanon as over a thousand Hezbollah members were simultaneously injured when their comms pagers exploded in an unprecedented cyberattack. pic.twitter.com/pJRDEAEnlr
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 17, 2024
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.
Copyright © 2024 by Mark S. Schwendau
