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> Selling pagers to Lebanon citizens is legal if I'm not wrong. This is true. But only the thousands of Hezbollah pagers blew up, right? There are a lot of det

> Selling pagers to Lebanon citizens is legal if I'm not wrong. This is true. But only the thousands of Hezbollah pagers blew up, right? There are a lot of details needed to see if they knowingly supplied Hezbollah or just sold a big batch to a random customer. I assumed, perhaps falsely, that a 5000 pager order for Lebanon is pretty specific and does anyone really use pagers any more? My thinking was that this is a specific tech used by Hezbollah. Although it is a consumer tech, maybe pagers are super popular in Lebanon. But 3000 people were injured so I thought that the vast majority of these pagers were used exclusively by Hezbollah. My point is their stuff was already in a war. Israel making them explode doesn’t seem to change that.

FerretFred 2y ago
> only the thousands of Hezbollah pagers blew up, right? Hopefully! Just out of curiosity I had a look for that brand of pager on eBay, but didn't see any. I'd hate to think that there were a few rogue units out there that had potential to cause harm!
easyThrowaway 2y ago
They were most probably devices sold at retail in areas where members of hezbollah are located.
- pvaldes 2y ago
  You could be right After ABC news, "an AP photographer in the city of Sidon saw a mobile phone shop damaged after devices exploded inside". https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/gold-apollo-pagers-exploded-lebanon-syria-made-company-113798451 https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/gold-apollo-p...