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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah.html
Exploding Pagers: a Modern-Day Trojan Horse
(New York Times) Sheera Frenkel - Current and former defense and intelligence officials who were briefed on the attack involving booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies said that B.A.C. Consulting was a Hungary-based company under contract to produce the devices on behalf of a Taiwanese company, Gold Apollo. In fact, it was part of an Israeli front. B.A.C. produced a range of ordinary pagers, but the pagers produced separately for Hizbullah contained batteries laced with the explosive PETN. The pagers began shipping to Lebanon in the summer of 2022, but production was quickly ramped up after Hizbullah leader Nasrallah denounced cellphones.