The sound of many of them exploding


  • xtr0n@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    So if I understand correctly, Israel managed to get a bunch of people in Hezbollah to use pagers and walkie talkies that contained bombs. But they have not been able to gather enough intelligence from control of those communication devices to find and rescue the remaining hostages? And if they weren’t able to catch useful information from those devices, why did the people holding those devices deserve to get blown up?

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      2 months ago

      The hostages are in Gaza, not Lebanon. If Israel had this level of infiltration with Hamas, it is unlikely this would’ve started in the first place

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      So if I understand correctly, Israel managed to get a bunch of people in Hezbollah to use pagers and walkie talkies that contained bombs.

      Think about it like, there’s one person who was able to tell the perpetrators of this that a big order of communication devices is being made.

      Perpetrators are clearly sophisticated so it’s fair to assume they can throw some skilled team at it.

      This attack could be years in the making.

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        2 months ago

        From a spy craft and capabilities standpoint it’s an amazing attack. I’m skeptical that using the devices as bombs is more useful than using them for spying, but who knows? It is super fucked up that random people who happen to be near the targets could be hurt. But between that and the stuxnet attack, it’s safe to say that Israel is capable of crazy sophisticated attacks.