Israel allegedly set up a shell company that has supplied Hezbollah with pagers since 2022, according to a US media report.
Pagers were used in an explosive attack in Lebanon on Tuesday that left 12 members of the terror group dead and thousands injured.
A supply chain trail allegedly led to Hungarian firm BAC Consulting, which appears to have a contract manufacturing beepers under a licensing agreement from Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese company.
However, the Budapest-based company was a front and part of a secret operation to send pagers to Hezbollah in 2022, the New York Times claimed, citing intelligence sources.
The terrorist group wanted the beepers as part of its efforts to avoid Israeli surveillance of mobile phone networks.
But they were allegedly sent devices with explosive-laced batteries made by Israeli intelligence officers, according to the media outlet.