According to the report of the American newspaper New York Times Lebanese group <a href="https://www.archyde.com/israel-carried-out-three-attacks-on-iranian-territory-already-in-october/" title="Israel carried out three attacks on Iranian territory already in October”>Hezbollah The pagers used by, which exploded simultaneously on Tuesday, came from Taiwan and were loaded with explosives shortly before reaching Lebanon. Taiwan has denied the allegation.
The New York Times reported, citing unnamed US and ‘other’ officials, that the pagers were ordered from Taiwanese pager manufacturer ‘Gold Apollo’.
Some officials told the American newspaper that Israel had molested them before arriving in Lebanon.
According to the French news agency AFP, as a result of the attacks in Lebanon, pagers exploded across the country, killing at least nine people and injuring around 2,800 people, including the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon. It has been blamed on Israel.
Lebanon’s Health Minister Firas Abiad said that nine people, including a girl, were killed in these explosions.
A source close to Hezbollah, on condition of anonymity, told AFP that the pagers that exploded were part of a batch of 1,000 devices that Hezbollah recently sent to the country. has been imported into.’
The New York Times reported that Gold had ordered about 3,000 pagers from Apollo, most of which were the AR924 model.
“Israel will likely need access to the supply chain for the devices in order to add explosives to the new batch of pagers,” Elijah Magnier, a Brussels-based military and security analyst, told AFP.
“Israeli intelligence has infiltrated the production process and has undoubtedly added explosives and remote triggering mechanisms to the pagers, raising the possibility that the device’s vendor is a terrorist organization,” he said. A third party could be an ‘intelligence front’ set up by Israel for this purpose.
There was no immediate comment from Israel on the incident.
On the other hand Taiwan The KeyGold Apollo Company says it did not make the pagers that exploded in Lebanon.
According to the British news agency Reuters, Taiwan’s Gold Apollo said on Wednesday that the pagers that exploded in Lebanon were not made by it, but by a company called BAC, which has a license to use its brand.
According to a senior Lebanese security source and another source, the explosives inside the devices were planted by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.
Photographs of the cracked pagers analyzed by Reuters showed a format and stickers on the back that were consistent with pagers made by Gold Apollo.
“This product was not ours,” Gold Apollo founder and president Su Ching-kuang told reporters at the company’s office in the northern Taiwanese city of New Taipei on Wednesday. It only had our brand on it.’
The AR-924 model was manufactured and sold by BAC, the company said in a statement.
Gold Apollo has ‘allowed BAC to use its brand trademark for the sale of products in certain territories but the design and manufacturing of the products is completely handled by BAC,’ the statement said.
Soo Chung Kuang had previously said the licensing firm was based in Europe, but later declined to comment on BAC’s location.
He added that there were problems in remittances from the firm.
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“The remittances were very strange,” he said, “the payments came from the Middle East.” He did not elaborate further.
Two sources familiar with Hezbollah operations told Reuters earlier this year that Hezbollah fighters began using pagers in the belief that they would be able to evade Israeli tracking of their bases.
Soo Chingkwang said he didn’t know how it could be tampered with to detonate the pagers.
Police officers arrived at the company while Su Qing was meeting with reporters. Officials from Taiwan’s Ministry of Economy also visited Gold Apollo.
The ministry said in a statement that there is no record of direct pager exports from Taiwan to Lebanon.
Soo Chingkwang also said that Gold Apollo was affected by the incident and plans to sue the licensee.
He said that ‘we are not a big company but we are a responsible one. It’s so embarrassing.’
On the other hand, according to the American website axios, Israel did not inform the United States before the attack on Hezbollah’s communication system in Lebanon, and the action of these explosions was approved during the security meetings held this week.
The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, senior government members and heads of security agencies.
According to the American website, the Israeli operation has suspended Hezbollah’s military command and control system in Lebanon.
Israeli officials told the website axios that “the army is on high alert in view of a possible reaction by Hezbollah.”
Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate by blaming Israel for blowing up Israel’s communications system.
The Lebanese health minister told a press conference that most of the injuries were on the ‘face, hands and stomach’.
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller declined to comment to reporters on suspicions that Israel was behind the blasts.
Malware
Michael Horowitz, head of the intelligence department at Middle East-based security and risk management consulting firm Layback International, told Al Arabiya that the cause is likely malware that causes pager batteries to overheat and explode. As these batteries heat up, the material placed near them explodes.
“In both cases, this is a very sophisticated attack,” he added. Especially if it’s a physical violation, because that means Israel has access to the products of those devices. This could be part of a message to Hezbollah.’
Al Arabiya sources confirmed that Hezbollah has issued orders to all its members to immediately abandon the use of these devices.
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**Intelligence Involvement in the Attack?**
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Lebanese Group Hezbollah’s Pagers Exploded Simultaneously: Who is Behind the Attack?
In a shocking series of events, pagers used by Lebanese group Hezbollah exploded simultaneously on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and injuring around 2,800 others, including the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon. The incident has sparked widespread speculation about the perpetrators behind the attack.
Taiwanese Pagers Loaded with Explosives
According to a report by the New York Times, citing unnamed US and other officials, the pagers used by Hezbollah were ordered from a Taiwanese company called Gold Apollo. The pagers were loaded with explosives shortly before reaching Lebanon. Taiwan has denied the allegations, stating that the pagers that exploded in Lebanon were not made by Gold Apollo but by a company called BAC, which has a license to use its brand.
**Israeli
– What were the implications of the Hezbollah pager explosions in Lebanon?
Lebanese Group Hezbollah’s Pagers Exploded in Lebanon, Israel Blamed
A recent report by the New York Times has revealed that the pagers used by Lebanese group Hezbollah, which exploded simultaneously on Tuesday, came from Taiwan and were loaded with explosives shortly before reaching Lebanon. At least nine people were killed and around 2,800 people were injured, including the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, in the blasts.
According to the report, the pagers were ordered from Taiwanese pager manufacturer Gold Apollo. Unnamed US and other officials told the American newspaper that Israel had molested the pagers before they arrived in Lebanon.
The French news agency AFP reported that the attacks in Lebanon were blamed on Israel. Lebanon’s Health Minister Firas Abiad confirmed that nine people, including a girl, were killed in the explosions.
A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that the pagers that exploded were part of a batch of 1,000 devices that Hezbollah recently imported into the country. The New York Times reported that Gold Apollo had ordered about 3,000 pagers, most of which were the AR924 model.
Elijah Magnier, a Brussels-based military and security analyst, told AFP that Israel likely needed access to the supply chain for the devices to add explosives to the new batch of pagers. He suggested that Israeli intelligence had infiltrated the production process and had added explosives and remote triggering mechanisms to the pagers, making it possible that the device’s vendor was a terrorist organization or a third-party ‘intelligence front’ set up by Israel for this purpose.
However, Taiwan’s Gold Apollo Company has denied making the pagers that exploded in Lebanon. According to Reuters, the company said on Wednesday that the pagers that exploded in Lebanon were not made by it, but by a company called BAC, which has a license to use its brand.
Photographs of the cracked pagers analyzed by Reuters showed a format and stickers on the back that were consistent with pagers made by Gold Apollo. Gold Apollo founder and president Su Ching-kuang told reporters that the product was not theirs and only had their brand on it. The AR-924 model was manufactured and sold by BAC, the company said in a statement.
Gold Apollo has allowed BAC to use its brand trademark for the sale of products in certain territories, but the design and manufacturing of the products is completely handled by BAC. Su Ching-kuang had previously said the licensing firm was based in Europe, but later declined to comment on BAC’s location. He added that there were problems in remittances from the firm.
The incident has sparked widespread condemnation, with many countries and organizations calling for an investigation into the attacks. The motive behind the blasts is still unclear, but it is believed that Israel was behind the incident, given its history of conflicts with Hezbollah.
The incident has also raised questions about the global supply chain and the security measures in place to prevent such incidents. It is unclear how Israel was able to infiltrate the production process and add explosives to the pagers, but it is clear that this incident has sparked a major concern about the safety of electronic devices and the need for greater security measures to prevent such incidents in the future.
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