Across Lebanon this morning, walkie-talkies and other electronic gear possessed by Hezbollah have exploded in an apparent Act II of yesterday’s pager detonations.

If yesterday’s action of thousands of pagers taking out terrorists caused panicked confusion, today’s round of further destruction is bound to result in paralyzing paranoia.

At least 9 suspected terrorists were killed and hundreds other Hezbollah operatives inured in the second wave of blasts, initial reports indicate. “Lebanon’s health ministry says nine people have been killed and more than 300 are wounded in the walkie-talkie blasts across Lebanon this afternoon,” The Times of Israel reported.

Blasts were also reported in southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah is preparing the ground for a wider offensive against Israel. “According to the reports, there are casualties in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeht, and in Al-Azia and Sarfand in southern Lebanon. The explosions occurred in many houses, as well as in vehicles, according to local reports. A security official told the Reuters news agency that the hand-held radios that exploded Wednesday are different from the pagers that exploded on Tuesday,’ the Israeli news outlet added.

Even the BBC is now live covering this unprecedented event that is disrupting one of Iran’s client terrorist organizations. It is being reported (don’t take it at face value, either) that 9 are dead and 300 injured in this round of explosions.

BREAKING IN LEBANON: Israel just blew up thousands of two-way radios which were used by Hezbollah terrorists in a second wave of its intelligence operation which started on Tuesday with the explosions of Hezbollah pager devices. pic.twitter.com/UnQlG7Xx2Y

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 18, 2024

From pagers to walkie-talkies and including all sorts of other electronic devices — the booms continue:

BREAKING:

All types of electric devices owned by Hezbollah operatives are now blowing up in Lebanon and the region.

Apart from pagers and walkie-talkies, other devices such as fingerprint devices, solar power systems and radios are now exploding too pic.twitter.com/JLjsK2w7co

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 18, 2024

This is more than just putting Hezbollah on its heels by destroying the ability to coordinate terrorist attacks after being reduced to using carrier pigeons …

New Chief of communications?

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… This provides valuable information on the who/what/where of Islamofascist terrorists and their infrastructure.

Israel will be mapping out injuries, hospital admissions, social media posts, electronic communications, news footage, and medical records, linking them all to people who had these pagers today. Forget the injuries and deaths; Israel just created a massive and growing trove of…

— Ben B@dejo (@BenTelAviv) September 17, 2024

Text of X:

Israel will be mapping out injuries, hospital admissions, social media posts, electronic communications, news footage, and medical records, linking them all to people who had these pagers today. Forget the injuries and deaths; Israel just created a massive and growing trove of information about both known and previously unknown Hezbollah militants, as well as their supporters, partners, friends, family members, colleagues, workplaces, vehicles, and homes.

They just created an incredibly dense and *up-to-date* social graph of an entire terrorist network, across Lebanon as well as neighboring countries. It is incredible what they just did.

(Imagine being in a dark room with a massive Christmas tree in it. The tree has thousands of electric lights strewn all over it, but they’re unlit because the wall plug is not plugged into the wall socket.)

(Now, plug it in.)

And this is another result:

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has ordered its Members, as well as all linked Groups in Syria and Iraq, to Dispose of any Personnel Electronic Device including Radios, PDAs, Pagers, and Phones that has been received in the last 4-8 Months.

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) September 18, 2024

Of course, there are any number of pro-Hamas keyboard supporters on X whining about how unfair this is cuz small, targeted booms may have caused collateral damage. Why don’t Jews know their place and stop fighting death? Like, we should listen to this guy.

What Israel has just done is, via *any* method, reckless. They blew up countless numbers of people who were driving (meaning cars out of control), shopping (your children are in the stroller standing behind him in the checkout line), et cetera. Indistinguishable from terrorism. https://t.co/th4fYwa0jr

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 17, 2024

I seem to remember last October 6th when none of this was happening and 1200 people went to bed that night looking forward to family, friends, and even a music concert the next day.

Listen up. War is Hell. Don’t start one.

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