Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago
Dr Andreas Krieg, a senior lecturer in security studies at King's College London, tells ITV News it's likely someone in Hezbollah 'had been compromised'.
"Hezbollah replaced mobile phones in February because they constituted such a vulnerability because they could be remotely hacked," says Dr Krieg.
"Pagers are less vulnerable to software hacking and are not traceable via the internet. So the devices had to be fiddled with physically before.
He said there were some "question marks about the ethics of this sort of warfare and spyfare" as the 5,000 delivered to Hezbollah were distributed across relief organisations, civil societal groups as well as fighters.
"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.
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Dr Andreas Krieg, a senior lecturer in security studies at King's College London, tells ITV News it's likely someone in Hezbollah 'had been compromised'.
"Hezbollah replaced mobile phones in February because they constituted such a vulnerability because they could be remotely hacked," says Dr Krieg.
"Pagers are less vulnerable to software hacking and are not traceable via the internet. So the devices had to be fiddled with physically before.
He said there were some "question marks about the ethics of this sort of warfare and spyfare" as the 5,000 delivered to Hezbollah were distributed across relief organisations, civil societal groups as well as fighters.
"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.
(C) ITV 2024
