Lebanon: Pager and walkie-talkie explosions across Hezbollah ranks

Across roughly twelve hours, thousands of pagers and then walkie-talkies issued to Hezbollah members and affiliates detonated simultaneously across Lebanon and parts of Syria. The devices had been sabotaged at the supply chain. At least 42 people were killed, including children, and thousands injured. Israel did not formally claim responsibility for weeks; the operation was attributed to a long-running Mossad supply-chain infiltration.

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APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Lebanon: Pager and walkie-talkie explosions across Hezbollah ranks [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/ea0a07dd-4131-4193-b726-4a24a6310df2

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Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Lebanon: Pager and walkie-talkie explosions across Hezbollah ranks." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/ea0a07dd-4131-4193-b726-4a24a6310df2.

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@misc{tayyar-event-ea0a07dd-4131-4193-b726-4a24a6310df2,
  title     = {{Lebanon: Pager and walkie-talkie explosions across Hezbollah ranks}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/ea0a07dd-4131-4193-b726-4a24a6310df2},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {Event date: 2024-09-17. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2024-09-17. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.