According to reports, the pager containing explosives that arrived in Lebanon early this year was part of Israel's plan to destroy Hezbollah and was highly deceptive. A Lebanese source with first-hand information on the pager revealed that the agent who made the pager designed a battery that can hide a small but powerful plastic explosive, as well as a new type of detonator that cannot be detected by X-rays. The vast number of new products lacked a credible backstory, so Israeli agents created fake online stores, web pages, and posts to defraud Hezbollah's due diligence. Two people familiar with the matter said that after receiving the pagers in February, Hezbollah began determining whether explosives were hidden and asked them to pass through airport security scanners to see if an alarm was triggered. But they didn't notice any suspicious signs. Lebanese sources said Hezbollah noticed that the battery was draining faster than expected. However, the issue did not appear to be a major security concern, and the group was still handing out pagers to its members a few hours before the attack.

According to reports, the pager containing explosives that arrived in Lebanon early this year was part of Israel's plan to destroy Hezbollah and was highly deceptive. A Lebanese source with first-hand information on the pager revealed that the agent who made the pager designed a battery that can hide a small but powerful plastic explosive, as well as a new type of detonator that cannot be detected by X-rays. The vast number of new products lacked a credible backstory, so Israeli agents created fake online stores, web pages, and posts to defraud Hezbollah's due diligence. Two people familiar with the matter said that after receiving the pagers in February, Hezbollah began determining whether explosives were hidden and asked them to pass through airport security scanners to see if an alarm was triggered. But they didn't notice any suspicious signs. Lebanese sources said Hezbollah noticed that the battery was draining faster than expected. However, the issue did not appear to be a major security concern, and the group was still handing out pagers to its members a few hours before the attack.