ISRAELI spies planted explosives in thousands of Hezbollah’s pagers before detonating them by sending a coded message, a source has claimed.
Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah terrorists exploded across Lebanon and Syria leaving nine people dead and thousands injured yesterday.
The moment a pager explodes in a market in Beirut
A man was caught on CCTV checking his pager just moments before it blew up
The explosion killed nine people and wounded almost 3,000
Hezbollah blamed Israel for the attack and vowed to deliver “just punishment“.
The blast saw at least nine people dead and nearly 3,000 injured, including Hezbollah’s terrorists and the Iranian ambassador.
Israel’s Mossad spy agency hid a small amount of explosives inside the pagers ordered by Hezbollah months before Tuesday’s detonations, two sources claimed.
A senior Lebanese security source said the group had ordered 5,000 beepers made by Taiwan-based Gold Apollo, which were brought into the country in the spring.
They said the devices had been modified by Israel’s spy service “at the production level.”
They said: “The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code.
“It’s very hard to detect it through any means. Even with any device or scanner.”
They added that 3,000 of the pagers exploded when a coded message was sent to them, simultaneously activating the explosives.
The source identified a photograph of the model of the pager, an AP924, which like other pagers wirelessly receive and display text messages but cannot make telephone calls.
The plot appears to have been in the making for months they said.
And another security source said that up to three grams of explosives were hidden in the new pagers and had gone “undetected” by Hezbollah for months.
In response, the Taiwan-based company Gold Apollo said the pagers were manufactured in Hungary using the company’s name.
Hsu Ching-Kuang told reporters that Gold Apollo did not make the AR-924 devices, but the European firm that did have the right to use its name.