Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

Re:Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sourc... by anigbrowl on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @08:43PM (#41587260)

I know Hezbollah operates their own telecoms, but I don't think it necessarily follows that this is exclusively military. This article (from an Israeli analyst) examines their communications infrastructure in more depth and points out that thanks to their political maneuvering they have de facto control of all telecommunications in Lebanon. I find it easy to imagine that at least some of the erstwhile pager users worked in an administrative or logistical capacity.

https://israel-alma.org/2021/03/09/hezbollahs-communications...

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Re:Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sourc... by tptacek on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @08:55PM (#41587339)

We'll see, but I think --- without claiming that anything we know right now is dispositive --- that this is going to net out as an attack that overwhelmingly impacted military personnel, for the simple reason that they were the ones who needed the pagers; so much so that the highest death toll from the attack thus far appears to be QF fighters in eastern Syria.

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