According to the Washington Post’s investigation, Hezbollah paid 1.6 million euros for the pagers that exploded and led to the injury of thousands of the organization’s operators.
A sales representative was able to convince Hezbollah to purchase 5,000 pagers on the grounds that it was a means of communication immune to Israeli espionage.
The explosive was carefully hidden so that it was almost undetectable, even if the device was disassembled.
– Hezbollah did dismantle some of the artifacts and may have even photographed them with an X-ray, but was unable to discover the hidden charge.
The chargers were activated remotely. Almost 3,000 Hezbollah officers and terrorists were killed or wounded.
Hezbollah operatives of the received a message stating that an encrypted message was waiting for them, the reading of which required pressing two buttons on the mace. Thus Israel guaranteed that their injuries would be significant and they would be hit with both hand.
