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Yesterday Israel remote-triggered thousands of booby-trapped pagers used by Hezbollah; today it's following up with an attack on radio devices. 12 dead, thousands wounded. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-09-18/ty-article-live/lebanese-security-source-mossad-planted-explosives-in-5-000-pagers-ordered-by-hezbollah/00000192-02f1-df36-ad96-0afbea560000

Among yesterday's 9 dead, Hezbollah says 8 were members. The 9th was the young daughter of a member. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7xnelvpepo

But none of them was important for Israel to kill. Barak Ravid reports the timing was pure tactics, no strategy: Hezbollah was about to switch pagers, so it was now or never.