My only reservation is that any brilliant cover operation can usually only be executed once. You rely on the target not even knowing that your exploit is even a possibility. Once you execute the exploit, your ignorance-based advantage is gone. Hezballah and all other terrorists now know to check their electronic devices regularly.
As with killing the Hamas leader in Iran with a bomb slipped under his bed, Israel is burning through a lot of the covert op tricks it's been slipping up its sleeve for decades, and these tricks will be unavailable (or at least, less reliable) in the future.
Still, this is a pretty existential fight and I guess Israel doesn't want to go down holding any of its arrows in its quivers, unused.
Hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists were reportedly injured in separate explosions across Lebanon on Tuesday, according to multiple reports.
The widespread detonation was the result of a large number of the terrorists' communication and "wireless" devices suddenly exploding in Lebanon and Syria, according to Axios' Barak Ravid and Reuters. Though it's still unclear who was behind the attack, it comes a day after Israel warned that it was considering taking new actions against an increasingly aggressive Hezbollah.
Israel and Hezbollah have since been engaged in cross-fire skirmishes that have only grown more frequent and sizable since Oct. 7, the date Hamas attacked Israel and started a regional war. The Israeli Defense Minister reportedly told a U.S. envoy on Monday that the time for a diplomatic solution had "passed because Hezbollah continues to tie itself to Hamas and refuses to end the conflict," according to Axios.
It was the "biggest security breach" Hezbollah has experienced since it started engaging with Israel last year, a senior Hezbollah commander told Reuters.
Are you ready for this casualty estimate? I don't think you are.
A current total of 2,800 people, including terrorists, are believed to be injured or killed, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry cited by Axios.
I guess Lebanon could be inflating those numbers, thinking, incorrectly, that a lot of Hezballah terrorists dead or with their fingers and faces half-blown of will elicit sympathy.
What it elicits are Glory Boners.
How long before they start claiming that it was mostly "women and children" talking on Hezballah's phones?
Iran's ambassador to Lebanon was reportedly injured in one of the explosions, according to The Jerusalem Post.
LOL.
In one video, an individual can be seen inside what appears to be a grocery store before a satchel he was carrying explodes. In another video, a person seen inside a store places what appears to be a wireless device on a counter before he is blown back by a similar explosion.
More at the link.
Below, a couple of videos of the small explosions. There is some collateral damage, although the explosions are small enough that I think the non-targets just got light damage from the pocket-bombs.
Some music to maim terrorist vermin by: