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10-year-old Fatima Jaafar Abdullah was killed in pager explosions in Lebanon.

Israel murders another kid again.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what exactly was so imminent that this had to happen?

What was so imminent that Hezbollah had to fire that rocket barrage some days ago?

You don't seem to understand the nature of this conflict

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I meant it more like, why blow up the pagers you spent all this effort to compromise. I would have thought that having access to those devices would be worth more covertly.

I suppose its possible the only thing they could manage to sneak into the devices was explosives though, since you have to take the board apart to find it. Its likely it looked like a board component too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

These were one-way pagers that, given the scale, were probably used to disperse global messages to footsoldiers or the level right above. Like: "come if for a briefing to the usual spot". That's information that Israel can already intercept

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Since they compromised the supply chain to plant explosives, they could have also put other tracking equipment in. Its possible though that it would be too hard to conceal an outgoing signal from testing.

We probably will never know the exact details, but it just seems like a lack of creativity to me. Seems more like a military attack than a cyber ops style thing.