Exploding Pagers – Virtually Islamic News

Fri 17 Rabi Al Awwal 1446AH 20-9-2024AD
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I’m following this fast-changing situation in Lebanon (there’s more on my X @garybunt). I’ve updated as new elements become available. Warning: Sensitive content.

https://t.co/mdAA2I2eIw
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) September 20, 2024

This is a comprehensive and informed analysis of the exploding pagers situation by Kareem Shaheen:

There is much to analyze in the mass maiming event of Hezbollah’s exploding pagers — a new Orwellian form of warfare and horror; memes on social media; the future of Hezbollah and…
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) September 20, 2024

“Hezbollah’s Nasrallah says Israel’s Lebanon attacks crossed ‘all red lines’” Nasrallah’s speech extract below:https://t.co/dnyrfLbavz https://t.co/dnyrfLbavz
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) September 19, 2024

https://t.co/lRRViY1Yyn
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) September 19, 2024

First Israel’s Exploding Pagers Maimed and Killed. Now Comes the Paranoia | ⁦@WIRED⁩ opinion/analysis https://t.co/UzUfTH8rTq
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) September 19, 2024

Lebanese civilians maimed in the thousands are now 'fighters', for @TheAtlantic

Combatancy based on nationality is the new frontier of racialization.

It's the Gaza model. If killed or maimed by allies, they are terrorists by virtue of being killed or maimed. pic.twitter.com/M8mH4zeZTg
— Luigi Daniele (@luigidaniele10) September 18, 2024

What some people are currently gloating about-
“Some of the patients, we had to remove both eyes. It kills me. In my past 25 years in practice, I’ve never removed as many eyes as I did yesterday.”https://t.co/hAcaRDoeYC
— Marc Owen Jones (@marcowenjones) September 19, 2024

Almost no one in America’s political or media elites cares about this. She is an unperson. Her life has/had no value. https://t.co/KcGc2R5etA
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 19, 2024

This headline hides the real perpetrator (Israel), and makes it sound like it was Hezbollah that carried out the terror attack.

I wonder if we can shame @LeMonde_EN into changing this terrible article. pic.twitter.com/HveibnA29b
— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) September 18, 2024

Japan firm says it stopped making walkie-talkies used in Lebanon blasts https://t.co/2N4KwEqzsg
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) September 19, 2024

https://t.co/lnvdsX6p99
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) September 19, 2024

Absolute scenes of chaos in Southern Beirut as hundreds of pagers belonging to members of Hezbollah explode.

This is just one location.

Hospital videos show Hezbollah members with various injuries from fingers blown off, hands blown off, and significant eye injuries. pic.twitter.com/U6pKB2Xne4
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 17, 2024

Reuters, What is Israel’s secretive cyber warfare unit 8200?, 18 Sep 2024

”Although Israel has not commented on the intelligence operation that caused thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon to explode almost simultaneously, the attack has put a spotlight on Israel’s secretive 8200 cyber warfare unit.”

https://t.co/gYTOzyLqQV
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) September 17, 2024

Update on exploding pagers

Hezbollah blames Israel after pager explosions kill nine and injure thousands in Lebanon https://t.co/WBP89SIwIb
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) September 18, 2024

https://t.co/k7qYkaLVGg
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) September 18, 2024

According to Sky News Arabia; Mossad was able to Inject a Compound of Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) into the Batteries of the New Encrypted Pagers that Hezbollah began using around February, before they even arrived in the Hands of Hezbollah Members, allowing them to… pic.twitter.com/K6CST3K2DU
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) September 17, 2024

So much ideology packed into one @abcnews headline:
1. Obscure the actual perpetrator by framing it as "Hezbollah pager attack" (shield Israel☑️)
2. "Disabled the group's communications" (Centre & legitimate Israel's narrative not its war crimes ☑️)
3. Represent all victims-… pic.twitter.com/H5K4DfdNF0
— Randa Abdel-Fattah (@RandaAFattah) September 18, 2024

‘A sign of panic’ (The Guardian), 18 Sep 2024
Commentary on the pager explosions (via PressReader) https://t.co/gIOHmHGHiY
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) September 18, 2024

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