re: Israel built a fake company and manufactured the pagers themselves

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And perhaps it wasn't even the plan to do it now. They did this in case an actual war broke out with them, and they would detonate them at the start to give them an upper hand.

Rumor has it that someone found out, and that person "ended up" dead. Then a second found out and they figured it was out of their hand so they went ahead with it now. "Use it or lose it" situation.

The bombs in the pager backup plan walkie talkies, that they set off today, was an added evil genius move.

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One of two things happened:

1. The security lifespan of the operation was expiring, i.e. the risk of discovery had become too great or some other threat to discovery was imminent causing them to trigger the, as another poster aptly put it, use it or lose it. I think this is the case; and I suspect it was us, the USA, that were the risk. One of the reasons Ismail Haniyeh was killed (bomb, safe house) was because he was communicating with our negotiators back channel at the negotiations. It was obvious that our St. Dept fricks were passing some intelligence to him to curry favor with the Iranians. The Israelis have concluded that if we know something (under Obama/Biden/Harris) then the Iranians (and thus Hamas, Hisbollah, and Houthi) potentially have access. We're the leak for stupid diplomatic reasons; our lack of action vs. the Iranians, who have killed Americans, supports that.

2. They detected an immediate threat or imminent attack above and beyond just rocket launches and did this to decapitate command and control down to the brigade level. This was their artillery barrage just before Kursk. If we see further actions such as raids into S Lebanon or some other incursion then maybe this is the case. I don't see them doing this as a stand-alone action if they know Hisbollah is entering the war.