Hezbollah, Lebanon

How badly has Hezbollah's communication network been hit?

Opinions differ on how seriously Hezbollah's ability to maintain trust in its communications network following a series of explosions of its pagers and walkie talkies.

A car burrning from an exploding walkie talkie. (Screenshot.)

In addition to the many dead and wounded from the mass explosion of pagers and walkie talkies Tuesday and Wednesday, experts and officials are trying to assess how badly Hezbollah's communications network has been compromised in the wake of these attacks, according to Naharnet.

Military analyst Hisham Jaber, a retired Lebanese general, said that Hezbollah has its own internal telecommunications network which it uses alongside the official national one, though he did say that part of this network may be compromised in the south.

Amal Saad, a Hezbollah researcher at Britain's Cardiff University said that Hezbollah "will have to find ways to counter this, (but) it's not easy to find other sorts of very primitive means that Israel can't rig. You can rig anything."

A source close to Hezbollah called the attacks a "major blow," and the pagers and walkie talkies were meant to replace cellphones which the IDF used to track and eliminate Hezbollah terrorists at will. Rebuilding the network and trust in it will be a difficult and complicated process.

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They can always go back to sending messages via couriers on foot, like Sinwar.
Anonymous 15:16
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I doubt the landline system works all that well in a fluid combat situation.
The Jewish Patriarch 18:32


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