Hezbollah pagers explode: Has Israel carried out such attacks before?
Al Jazeera
The method and scale of the latest Israeli killings may be new, but their idea of assassinating opponents goes far back.
Israel and its spy agency Mossad are accused of orchestrating the explosion of thousands of pagers that killed and maimed civilians and Hezbollah operatives across Lebanon on Tuesday.
They are also suspected of being behind a series of explosions of other devices in various Lebanese areas on Wednesday.
The exploding radio communication devices, to which Hezbollah switched to avoid mobile phone hacking, killed nine people including an eight-year-old girl, and injured close to 3,000, including Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani.
Mossad and the Israeli army cooperated to plant explosives in the devices, according to Israeli and Western media outlets. Israeli authorities remain silent, news circulating that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed everyone not to speak.
The explosions exposed many Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon and, as they filled the hospitals, Israeli operatives had opportunities to gather intelligence.
