# Exploding Pagers in Lebanon {2024-09-17}

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 17, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pagers-in-lebanon-2024-09-17/1007395 "2024-09-17T18:27:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pagers-in-lebanon-2024-09-17/1007395/22 "2024-09-17T18:32:58Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Discussion for the Israel-Hamas War: A thread in the Pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-for-the-israel-hamas-war-a-thread-in-the-pit/992653/1628):

> [@Discussion for the Israel-Hamas War: A thread in the Pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-for-the-israel-hamas-war-a-thread-in-the-pit/992653/1628):
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> Don’t know if this is the right thread for this bit of explosive news, but here goes. This is damn diabolical.
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> [https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-pagers-explosions-intl/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-pagers-explosions-intl/index.html)

I don’t know which thread is the right one for this either, so I’ll simply start a new one with a narrow focus, but which can be widened if deemed appropiate (I guess the situation will evolve shortly). And I put it Great Debates because it seems too uncertain for Factual Questions, but if there is a better place, I don’t mind moving it to another forum.  
Now to my question: Everybody is writing that it was Israel who made some thousands of pagers explode in Lebanon simultaneously. Many of those pagers beonged to Hizbullah cadres and operatives. Never mind for a second whether it was Israel’s work or somebody elses: How on Earth do you pull this off? How it is even possible?  
Just for historical context, [this is the story of Yahya Ayyash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash#Assassination)’s assassination with an exploding mobile telephone. In 1996.  
But that was one explosion, now we had thousands simultaneously!  
How did they do it?

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