Planning Behind Israel’s Pager Attack
On 7th October 2023, Hamas did such an attack on Israel that was very shocking for the entire world.
And Israel was also not prepared for this, and soon after that, Israel started a large-scale attack to get its revenge on Hamas. As soon as Israel started attacking, the next day, i.e., October 8, 2023, in the north of Israel, Hezbollah of Lebanon, who has an alliance with Hamas, started attacking Israel as well.
And the heaviest attack done by Hezbollah was done on Sheba Farms, which is a disputed land between Lebanon and Israel. Back-to-back, rockets were launched, and an air strike was done.
This Hezbollah is an Iran-backed Shia group. It has huge control over the southern part of Lebanon. Hezbollah’s political and military wings have been formed. In fact, in Lebanon’s parliament, they’ve got 13 of their ministers.
So, on 8th October 2023, when Hezbollah attacked Israel back-to-back, then Israel also started an air strike. What I mean to say is, after the 7th October incident, within 2 days Israel had entered in a 2-front war in its north and south regions, where on one side it was fighting with Hamas and on the other hand, it was fighting with Hezbollah.
When Hezbollah came to attack Israel, Israel realized how much preparation it took only after 3 days, i.e., on 11th October. This day Hezbollah started attacking while being in Lebanon in the northern region of Israel with heavy armillaria, anti-tank missiles, and drones.
And when this attack was going on between Israel and Hezbollah, then in the same week, news was released that Hezbollah’s 20 militants were going to enter northern Israel by using paragliders, and whatever was done on 7th October in Israel by Hamas was to be repeated again, and this time it would occur in the northern part of Israel.
And when this news started circulating, then alarms went off in the entire northern region of Israel. Israeli forces told the citizens to take shelter.
And then after this announcement, around 24-48 hours later, Israel’s army said that this was a false alarm that went off due to human error. And this information wasn’t correct, and there’s nothing to be concerned about.
But the Israeli citizens who lived in the northern part of Israel, i.e., near the borders of Lebanon, saw a few days before that how Hamas entered Israel and caused destruction.
And at the same time, Hezbollah was doing a very heavy attack, so the Israeli citizens of the northern region got scared, and around 96,00 Israelis who lived near the Lebanon border, i.e., in the northern area of Israel, left that area, i.e., their home, and went to the other side.
And the civilians on the Lebanon side backed off as well. Now, when it started, Netanyahu faced a lot of pressure from the opposition a few days before the south of Israel was attacked; people fled from there, and now, due to the attack in the north, people have to flee from their house. That Israeli citizens aren’t able to live in their own house. They have to live in camp.
So, regarding this, Israel’s opposition put a lot of pressure on Netanyahu and told him that this is Netanyahu’s failure. And when this was pointed out a lot, then Netanyahu promised that very soon, Israelis who fled from the northern area would go back to their houses.
But it wasn’t easy to do this because people would come back to Lebanon’s border when Hezbollah would be on backfoot. Attacks will be stopped, and in comparison to Hamas, Hezbollah was stronger. It has more than 1,000,000 fighters.
And it also has backing from Iran. So, that’s why it was a very tough task for Israel. After this, Hezbollah and Israeli forces fought on a daily basis. Hezbollah, which was attacking from south Lebanon, had made a 4-layer security for itself.
The first layer that they made was of tactical defense. In the second layer, there were rockets and missiles. In the third layer, command and control. And in the 4th layer, the main leaders who headed this mission stayed there.
So, Israel used its Pegasus software; although they’ve got a lot of software, Pegasus is famous. So, by using its Pegasus software, they hacked the phones used by the leaders of Hezbollah they used to track their location and the strategy they made, which had a huge advantage for Israel.
Israel hacked the mobile phones of many of Hezbollah’s leaders and tracked their location. And then, by using guided missiles, they attacked and killed them. So, by this, many of Hezbollah’s leaders were killed by Israel, and which strategy will Hezbollah attack with Israel? Israel knew about it before itself.
In fact, the leaders who weren’t even in the war zone were far inside Lebanon, Syria, and planned missiles were aimed at them as well.
And the biggest problem for Hezbollah began when, in November 2023, Israel located Hussam Mohammad Ibrahim, Ali Raef, and Ali Hassan and sooted them down through guided missiles.
And these things began increasing a lot. Then starts the year 2024, and as this new year comes, people of Hezbollah realize that their planning is known to be Israeli before itself. And the biggest reason behind it is the mobile.
Because at that time, many Hezbollah commanders were killed by missiles when they used the mobile immediately. So, they tried to use fewer mobile phones. In fact, if they go for operations, they shouldn’t take mobiles.
But even after that, tracking done by Israel became a huge headache for Hezbollah because, on using the mobiles, Israelis used to know everything. And if they didn’t use it, how would they coordinate among themselves? How would they communicate? They faced this problem a lot.
So, slowly, they left phones and started putting in small efforts like handwritten letters; they also started using pagers as well, but not on a large scale. There were very few people who used pagers to communicate.
Now after that, the month of February 2024 starts, and Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, comes out on TV and gives a message to the people of Hezbollah. In the message, he says, “You ask me where the Israeli agents are.
I’ll tell you that the phone is in your hands, in your wife’s hands, in your children’s hands.” You’ll get the link to this entire video in the description. So, after the message given by Hezbollah’s leader—the members of Hezbollah who used pager sometimes and used phones only when in need—now they rapidly left phones and shifted towards using pager.
Actually, what happened was that the mobile is connected with the local tower. If someone establishes control on that tower, then the phones of the entire area can be tracked, and mobile has Wi-Fi, GPS, Internet, a SIM card, and an and an IMEI number with which everything can be tracked.
But pagers work in RF technology, i.e., radio frequency; like, our normal radios also work on the same RF technology. So, the location of this pager can’t be tracked. Pagers have one-way communication; there’re some advanced pagers that have two-way communication, but the common pagers have one-way communication, i.e., a message can only be received.
You can receive, but you can’t send the message. So, a person uses a computer or centralized service to send a message in bulk to 100 or 200 or 1000 pagers, and that message is conveyed. And this is the reason that even in today’s date where there’s such an advanced technology, even at this time, people who have security issues use pager.
Many restaurants and hospitals also use pagers sometimes, where the message is broadcasted to the staff altogether to coordinate. So, looking at these things, Hezbollah also decided that they’ll use pager.
They were talking about it for a long time, when many members started di*ing and even their leader said it on TV. Then, in the beginning of March 2024, Hezbollah started looking for companies in the entire world to order pagers.
They had decided that they would order 5000 pagers and they even fixed a specific model that AR-924 model will be used. Now, when Hezbollah was deciding all of these, then all these intel reached Israel as well that Hezbollah, which wanted to shift to Pager since many years now it is looking for companies to order in bulk & it has even ordered pagers from some companies.
So, to deal with all these there’s a dedicated intelligence unit in Israel named, 8-2-Hundred This isn’t called 82 hundred, they call it 8-2-Hundred. Actually, Israel’s intelligence is divided in 3 parts.
One is Mossad, that works on international operations i.e. the threats which occur from countries outside of Israel’s border second is – Shin Bet – which is also called as Shaba. It works on Israel’s internal security, if there’s a spy of a foreign country if he enters Israel and does something, then this unit finds the spy which enters the boundary & kills them.
And the third is Agaf HaModi’in—it is Israel’s military intelligence, and there’s a unit in this military intelligence called Shmone Matayim, which they call Unit 8-2-Hundred. This unit is the expert in signal intelligence and cyber operations. Tracking all the electronic devices—fridge, mobile, computer—fixing b*mb in them and killing enemies—all these tasks come under this unit.
If you remember, then in 2020 Israel killed Iran’s scientist with the help of an AI-assisted robot remotely through satellite. That was done by this 8-2-Hundred unit. And Hezbollah’s pager task was assigned to this unit itself.
Now, when this unit got this task, they knew that if Hezbollah is shifting to pager in bulk, then 1-2 pagers won’t work for them; they would need thousands of pagers in bulk. So, unit 8-2-Hundred tracked all the major companies all over the world that manufacture pagers.
So, unit 8-2-Hundred tracked all the major companies all over the world that manufacture pagers, like Gold Apollo, Multitone Electronics, Unication, and Swiss Phone, and then after some time, they got intel that from Gold Apollo, Hezbollah had ordered pagers before as well, routing through multiple countries to Lebanon.
Secondly, Hezbollah is declared as a terrorist organization by US, Japan, European countries so, Hezbollah avoids its transactions in these countries. And Gold Apollo is in Taiwan, so it was perfect for ordering pager. That’s why it’s easier for Hezbollah to operate in Taiwan as compared to rest of the countries, were multiple intelligence agencies are trying to keep a track on Hezbollah.
So, after this Israel decides to make links in Gold Apollo anyhow but Gold Apollo is listed among world’s biggest pager company it’s not very easy to spy in it and track everything. So, deal with these, Israel’s unit 8-2-Hundred choose a very different way.
So, Israel’s intelligence units register companies in different domain in different countries so that if they ever need in future, then they wouldn’t have to make new companies.
Because people doubt new companies, so before itself Israel’s intelligence unit register different companies. So, after this, Israel tried making shell companies in Hungary’s capital – Budapest.
They selected Hungary because the import and export policy are followed by European Union but Hungary supports foreign investment, free-trade more for the growth of its countries. Even if you see, then in the entire Europe Hungary takes very less corporate tax to support all these.
So, Israel finds a place in 14th district of Hungary’s capital Budapest 33 A 1142 Budapest – in the ground floor of this building – Israel had set up a company whose name was – BAC consulting.
This is the original photo of that building, and 13 more companies are registered in this building. If you visit this address now, then they had put up a paper, and they’ve fled from here.
But at that particular time, there was a girl in this company, Cristiana Barsony; they made her the CEO, but it hasn’t been confirmed yet that this girl was made the CEO by deception or that she’s actually working with Israel. But reporters caught some lies.
They showed on the website of BAC Consulting that Cristiana is a board member of the Earth Child Institute. But when it was checked, it came to be a lie. Similarly, when Cristian’s resume was checked, then the lie was caught in it as well.
They had shown that she’s the project manager of the International Atomic Energy Agency, while that wasn’t the case. She wasn’t managing a project there. So, for now, Cristiana is being reached out to by everyone, but nobody could ever talk to her.
A total of 2 people have been named who are mostly discussed; one is Cristina and the other is Rinson Jose of Indian origin. Who migrated from Kerala to Norway? His name came to light as well, in this deal that his company, Norta Global LTD, received 1.6 million euros through this company to help Israel.
The national security agency of his country declined that – there’s nothing like that. But for now, the Wayanad police in India have started an inquiry about Rinson Jose. So, from now Israel plan was to set up a BAC company and make it a front party to deal with Gold Apollo.
Now you’ll see how it was done. And apart from BAC company, 2 more shell companies were made whose names, and addresses – nothing has been found out. It’s being said for these 2 companies that these companies were a part of Israel’s master plan.
When Israel made these shell companies, they started making genuine clients and started supplying pagers in bulk in the area. Now, they were manufacturing pagers here itself or they were bringing from somewhere else—it’s not clear yet.
All the things that I’m telling you are on the basis of a report published by Sheera Frenkel, Saad & Ronen in the New York Times on September 18th.
Now, discussion is taking place everywhere about this report. You’ll get all these links here.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g-TaUWtOCICIpUhZa9mb-oURzbmXjnZvQNc1RTmE48Q/edit.
After making these shell companies, they showed that it’s the information coordinator for the European Institute of Innovation & Technology that does business for the European Commission, like Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Malta, Latvia in such companies.
Now, after setting all these up, Israel had started the business, but Israel knew that no matter how big of a business its shell companies make, they show their business in multiple countries, but Hezbollah won’t even touch pagers from an unknown company.
So, to deal with this, they try to get in touch with Gold Apollo in Taiwan. Because they believed that Gold Apollo is trusted by Hezbollah, they ordered pagers from there before as well. So, to deal with these, they go to Taiwan as Budapest’s businessman, and there they fix a meeting at Gold Apollo’s office.
Multiple discussions take place there, and they make Gold Apollo ready for an agreement that states that Gold Apollo will allow BAC Consulting to use their name and branding; BAC Consulting will make its own pager device, AR-924, and do everything itself but the sticker of Gold Apollo Co. Ltd.
Would be put on the model, that is, it’ll sell it forward after branding. But Gold Apollo didn’t have any idea that it was Israel’s shell company, and the entire agreement between BAC Consulting and Gold Apollo was fixed for this entire deal that BAC Consulting would even give a share of its profit and some money would be given as a signing bonus also.
The overall deal was good, so Gold Apollo couldn’t decline. And it signs the agreement.
Gold Apollo didn’t know what was happening with them. They thought that only the name was being used and the company was founded to be registered in 2022; it’s been a long time, so they signed the agreement.
But they didn’t have any idea that, due to this, what was going to happen in the future. Now, as soon as Gold Apollo & BAC Consulting sign the agreement, the pagers of BAC Consulting are not the pagers of Gold Apollo, and this is what Israel wanted.
And whatever I’m telling has been stated by Gold Apollo in an official statement that we only gave branding in this agreement. Rest; we aren’t linked to it. All the manufacturing was done by BAC Consulting.
This is its copy; you can read it. After this, BAC Consulting started making pagers and supplying them to its multiple genuine clients. But actually, they were spying & waiting for their main client Hezbollah that anyhow they should sell their own pagers, on which Gold Apollo’s logo was put on to Hezbollah.
Now, Hezbollah had bought Apollo’s pagers earlier, but to sell Gold Apollo pagers made by Budapest’s BAC consulting to Hezbollah was a very tough task. So, from here Israel has many spies’ agents who were mixed in Lebanon and among members of Hezbollah.
They were given this task anyway: bring the ones who would deal for pagers in Hezbollah, as clients, to Budapest, and Hezbollah doesn’t order from the open market. It has to use many channels and order pagers secretly.
So which agents did Israel use, which tricks were applied, which companies were used in between, and how Hezbollah was convinced and made ready to order pagers from BAC Consulting? Only nobody knows this.
Its investigation is still going, but anyhow, Israel gained success in it and made Hezbollah their client, as it wanted.
And as per Sky News, Hezbollah ordered 5000 pagers from BAC Consulting. In the first lot, 3000 pagers were to be sent, and the rest of the 2000 in the second lot. In this process, it is being said that the 2 other shell companies that Israel had opened separately, whose names haven’t been disclosed until now, had a major role in placing this order.
When this BAC Consulting was planning to give pagers to Hezbollah at the same time, one more thing had happened. BAC Consulting had to make payment according to the agreement to Taiwan’s Gold Apollo, with which it had signed the agreement.
So, when BAC Consulting started making payment to Gold Apollo, Taiwan’s government sensed some unusual activity, due to which it got alerted. Taiwan’s economy ministry observed that Gold Apollo’s payment often routed from the Middle East as well.
And due to this, Taiwan’s local banks even set BAC Consulting’s payment on hold as well. And even though the investigation had started regarding this, before the results could have been declared, Israel had done its work.
And the issue regarding payment was even confirmed by the founder of Gold Apollo, Hsu Ching, that payment was coming through an unusual way through the Middle East, and along with it, another thing came to light that the entire game, which was going on the money that was required for it, around 1.6 million euros, was sent by Israel first to Bulgaria and then to Hungary.
So, all the orders that Hezbollah placed through BAC consulting—a former British army b*mb disposal officer had a theory in this—Sean Moorhouse that the normal pagers consist of these 2 batteries that give powers to the pagers.
The speaker is attached here, which releases the incoming beeps and alerts. The vibrator is being put here in case; if it’s in silent mode, then the notification should be sent. The radio antenna, which receives signal.
And the microprocessor that converts the signal and makes the message readable. The 2 batteries in the pager—he said that it might’ve happened that among the two identical batteries, one was replaced and filled with explosive. So, the other battery was giving power to the device, and the other battery was filled with explosives.
And attached it with a chip, normally alkaline. A battery weighs 23 grams, but the weight of one of the batteries found in these pagers weighed around 20 grams, so, regarding this, it’s being said that maybe in these batteries’ explosives were kept. And specific explosives used PETN; this can do a very big blast in a very small amount.
That’s why this particular explosive was always used by agencies in cohort operations in 1996; similarly, an explosive was used in a mobile device—there was an operative of Hamas named Yahya who was killed by Mossad. Similarly, once they planted a b*mb in a dog and sent it to Hezbollah’s camp.
Then comes the month of February 2024, and Israeli pagers started entering Lebanon day by day. All the operatives of Hezbollah who were using this pager didn’t have any idea that they were roaming with a live b*mb that is entirely in the control of Israel.
They can explode whenever they want. Around 3000 pagers had reached Lebanon; the rest of the 2000 were left to reach, and then comes the date of 15th September, 2024, when the pager attack had to be done.
Just 2 days before this attack, Hezbollah had planted the M18A1 Claymore mine in Israel’s Yarkon Park of Tel Aviv, and through the remote activation system, they were going to explode the bomb here. But somehow Israel’s internal intelligence unit—the one that I told you about in the beginning—was named Shin Bet, which they also called Shabba.
So, Shin Bet gets the intel, and they stop this explosion now. The attack had stopped, but Israel was very angry that they had to do something about Hezbollah 2 days after this incident, i.e., 17th September, 2024, the day when this pager attack was to be done. In the morning, a few hours before the pager attack, the Security Cabinet of Israel conducts a long meeting regarding Hezbollah. We don’t know about the rest of the discussion, but after this meeting, Israel announced that the time has arrived—that the northern Israelis who left their homes now are the time to bring them back.
After this meeting, Netanyahu even told the media that, now in the case of Hezbollah near Israel’s northern border, some fundamental security changes need to be done. Only then can the Israelis come back to their homes.
Everyone felt that this meeting was a normal meeting, but it was being said that this meeting was related to this pager attack. In fact, CNN reported a publication in which they clearly said that Israel had already told the US about the pager attack that it was going to do on Lebanon.
It took the US in confidence; only then did it conduct the pager attack. But regarding this, a lot of chaos was caused. The secretary of state of the US, Antony Blinken, said that it’s nothing like that. We don’t know anything about it.
After this meeting concludes, one more thing happens. The internal intelligence unit, Shin Bet, said one more thing: Hezbollah fixed an explosive in a device and attempted to kill the former Israeli officer that we stopped.
So, all these things were happening back-to-back a few hours before the pager attack. Now, after this, on the same day, i.e., on 17th September, 2024, the time was 3:30 PM, and all the members of Hezbollah in Lebanon got a message on pager.
Whenever the main leadership of Hezbollah used to message grading a task, firstly something would be written in Arabic that appeared in a set pattern, then this message appeared like that message. And everybody felt as if their leader had sent his message.
And even if someone was away from their pager, then they had come near to it. The pagers, which were silent at that time, started to vibrate. And as soon as this message is received, pagers vibrate and start ringing.
And after some time, back-to-back, these pagers start self-exploding. Thousands of pager shops, markets, houses, bus stands—they exploded in thousands in Lebanon. The common citizens who were around the members of Hezbollah got injured as well.
And people were angered mostly regarding Fatima’s incident because 9-year-old Fatima was at home, and when that pager started ringing, then she went to give to her father, and it exploded on her, and she lost her life.
So, people were angry a lot regarding this. The hospitals in Lebanon started getting filled up; doctor’s leave was cancelled. In Lebanon, people started taking out batteries of TVs, laptops, phones—everything—and started throwing it. In fact, chaos started in the airport as well, so the bomb shouldn’t explode in the airplane as well.
In the airports as well, people took out batteries from their phones and pagers and threw them. Thousands of people got injured, and more than 40 people lost their lives. Now, on the next day, i.e., September 18, 2024, 4 people died. People were caring for their dead bodies, then there were walkie-talkies around, and it was known that walkie-talkies also started exploding.
After some time, in Beirut, the solar panels on top of the houses started exploding. People got even more scared from here that what would explode next. TV, tablet, fridge—people started getting scared with everything that when, what would explode? Nobody knows.
But it was more shocking when Mojtaba Amani, Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon, was injured from his pager. Then regarding this, it was being said that what is Hezbollah’s pager doing with the Iranian ambassador? When these walkie-talkies started exploding, then it was being figured out why it was happening—so it was found out that these are of model IC-F24 of the ICOM company that’s made by Japanese companies.
So, regarding this, the statement from Japanese companies was released that these walkie-talkie models’s production had been stopped in 2014 itself. So, how are they exploding? They don’t have any idea as well.
Now, as soon as this incident occurs, different theories emerge regarding this, but the shocking thing is that how was radio-based technology triggered from afar? The theory that is most talked about is that an encrypted message was sent from far away to these devices, with which memory became full and the chip had programming from earlier itself that it started heating.
So, due to the heating of the battery, explosives started getting exploded. This theory was stated. But to figure out what actually happened is very difficult because none of the company or country would accept that it gave Hezbollah pagers, knowingly or by mistake, or in any case.
Because multiple countries have already declared Hezbollah has a terrorist organization. So, the country and the company—who would accept this—would face a huge problem. In fact, Hezbollah wouldn’t disclose this itself, where it ordered pagers from, or which secret channel was used to order these devices. And if we talk about Israel then, about this pager attack, Israel had rejected to say anything officially.
It gave only one indication: the defense minister of Israel, Yoav Gallant, said that a new period of war is starting, and we’re adapting that. But all the things that’re going on cleared one thing: in the coming time, a proper war would take place between Hezbollah and Israel.
Israel has given the indication that it can conduct a ground invasion in Lebanon to bring back Israelis in the northern region to their home.
So, what’ll actually happen? If anything important occurs, then I’ll make a topic on it again.
Thank you!!
