ISRAELI spies planted explosives in thousands of Hezbollah’s pagers before detonating them by sending a coded message, a source has claimed.
Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah terrorists exploded across Lebanon and Syria leaving nine people dead and thousands injured yesterday.
Hezbollah blamed Israel for the attack and vowed to deliver “just punishment”.
Israel’s Mossad spy agency hid a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Hezbollah months before Tuesday’s detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source claimed.
A senior Lebanese security source said the group had ordered 5,000 beepers made by Taiwan-based Gold Apollo, which were brought into the country in the spring.
The blast saw at least nine people dead and nearly 3,000 injured, including Hezbollah’s terrorists and the Iranian ambassador.
The plot appears to have been in the making for months, sources claim.
The senior Lebanese security source identified a photograph of the model of the pager, an AP924, which like other pagers wirelessly receive and display text messages but cannot make telephone calls.
But the senior Lebanese source said the devices had been modified by Israel’s spy service “at the production level.”
They said: “The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code. It’s very hard to detect it through any means. Even with any device or scanner.”
They added that 3,000 of the pagers exploded when a coded message was sent to them, simultaneously activating the explosives.
Another security source said that up to three grams of explosives were hidden in the new pagers and had gone “undetected” by Hezbollah for months.
