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recently, thousands of pagers, walkie-talkies and other communication devices in lebanon were remotely controlled and exploded simultaneously, causing a large number of casualties. the incident shocked the international community.reuters disclosed on the 20th that just before the massive explosion, hezbollah in lebanon was still distributing pagers, and the explosion occurred just a few hours after someone received the pager.

the report quoted security sources as saying that before the explosion this week, hezbollah in lebanon was still distributing pagers to its members. the source said that a hezbollah member received a pager on monday and had not used it before it exploded in the box the next day. another source said that a senior hezbollah member had just received a pager a few days ago, and then the explosion injured one of his subordinates.

this was clearly a well-coordinated attack. pagers with the "golden apollo" brand were detonated in hezbollah strongholds in southern lebanon, beirut suburbs and the eastern bekaa valley on tuesday. then on wednesday, a large number of walkie-talkies used by hezbollah were detonated again. the continuous attacks killed 37 people and injured more than 3,000.

the report said that these pagers were shipped to lebanon starting in 2022, and hezbollah inspected the pagers, including checking that they would not trigger alarms when carrying the pagers through airports, but no abnormalities were found.

sources revealed that the batteries in the walkie-talkies contained a highly explosive compound called pentaerythritol tetranitrate (petn).the explosives are difficult to detect "with any device or scanner."

source: global times wechat official account