@mattblaze Yeah, this does not seem targeted at all.... Likely every pager (or a significant number of pagers) shipping into the country recently rigged somehow. Or, they rigged an entire shipment that was provided to Hezbollah specifically (maybe through Iran given the involvement there of an official).

@ai6yr The logistics required to pull this off are mind-boggling, even if you’re (say) Israel. They had to get intel that they were about to switch to pagers and then be quickly ready with a fully realized supply chain compromise. Did they have a warehouse full of exploding pagers sitting around ready to go, just in case the opportunity arose someday?

@johne @ai6yr As I noted, there's a video. It does not look at all like a battery fire.

@johne @ai6yr The other big question: What model pagers were these? Do any one way pagers use LiIon batteries?

@mattblaze @johne @ai6yr Here’s the likely model, they use LiIon batteries. But I find it extremely implausible that this was an explosion of a LiIon battery.
Now if anybody has a manual to this device with a picture of the innards and the back I’d be very happy.
https://mstdn.strafpla.net/@chris/113153556769556246