Breaking: According to various Telegram groups, Israel has managed to find a way to detonate H3zboll_h hand-radios remotely. September 2024
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H3zboll_h in a message to its people, said to abandon their radios after many devices exploded. At least 70 people have been injured.
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– As it stands now at least 1,000 casualties have been reported after encrypted pagers used by terror members of H3ZB0ll@h simultaneously detonated across #Lebanon in what is suspected to be an Israeli Mossad operation.
– It is unclear what had exactly made the devices blown up, but there is talks that the devices were hacked or tampered in a way that cause the batteries to overheat and explode.
– The H3z has claiming that the blasts have killed roughly killed three people, including a child ( thus far )
– #Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was wounded by one of the blasts, according to Iranian state media.
– Detonations reported in #Syria have also been reported.
Thousands of people across Lebanon have been injured after handheld pagers exploded, local media has reported it may have been an Israeli attack targeting H3Zb0ll@h members..
Hassan Nasrallah the leader of H3zb0ll@h had previously put warning out to his members against carrying cell phones, papers and other devices due to tracking and other risks.
A Reuters journalist saw ambulances rushing through the southern suburbs of the capital #Beirut amid widespread panic. Residents said explosions were taking place even 30 minutes after the initial blasts. The security source added that devices were also exploding in the south of Lebanon.
Groups of people huddled at the entrance of buildings to check on people they knew who may have been wounded, the Reuters journalist said.
Regional broadcasters carrying CCTV footage which showed what appeared to be a small handheld device placed next to a grocery store cashier where an individual was paying spontaneously exploding. In other footage, an explosion appeared to knock out someone standing at a fruit stand at a market area.
The Israel’s military declined to comment on the incident.
Further information and footage on this incident can be found
Telegram, the wildly popular messaging platform beloved by the far right and instrumental to both sides in the Israel-Hamas war, has suddenly found itself in the crosshairs of European law enforcement and regulators.
French authorities made a surprise arrest of Telegram’s founder and CEO last week, a significant escalation in the growing efforts by governments to hold social media platforms liable for the often illegal and violent content they host.
And on Friday, following scrutiny of its lax content moderation policies, Telegram made several Hamas channels inaccessible, including the group’s main avenue for communicating with followers.
What is Telegram?
The company calls itself “a messaging app with a focus on speed and security,” with more than 950 million active users. In that sense, it functions much like Whatsapp or Signal, allowing users to send encrypted messages to each other.
Why do extremists love it?
Europe’s surging far-right movements have found a home on Telegram, using the app to radicalize new members and organize real-world demonstrations. The radical Reichsbürger movement, which believes Germany is still under Allied occupation and not a sovereign state, is one such group. They organized a coup attempt, in part through Telegram channels, but were thwarted by German authorities in 2022 when law enforcement discovered a cache of nearly half a million euros and an arsenal of weapons.
Telegram, based in Dubai, has long been popular in the Middle East, and its usage has surged in Israel and the region following October 7. That’s partly because both the Israeli military and Hamas have relied on it as a critical messaging platform.
As of October 2023, the month of Hamas’ attack and the war’s outbreak, Israel had around 2.5 million active weekly users, according to Sensor Tower, a market intelligence firm — amounting to about one in four Israelis.