What we know about the deadly pager explosions in Lebanon

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Dr Andreas Krieg, Associate Professor at King's College London School of Security, agreed the devices would have to had been physically tampered with.

He suggests operatives must have "infiltrated the supply chain" of the pagers, which were "likely sourced earlier this year from a company in Hungary producing pagers based on the blue prints of a Taiwanese company".

"There is a huge amount of collateral damage," Dr Krieg said. "And while this looks very targeted, it was a fairly indiscriminate attack as it hit mostly civilians or potential fighters that at the time of the strike were not in active combat and therefore not legitimate targets.

Period	18 Sept 2024
Held at	ITV, United Kingdom