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Apartheid. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide. Terrorism. Israel and its benefactor are just awful.
I just wanna know how the heck pagers were turned into remote bombs??
Intercepting the shipment, lining the interior of with some explosive (some putty that could hug all open space, or swapping out the batteries with custom ones that are half filled, etc), then wiring up a microchip that triggers when a specific code of 1's & 0's is received, or perhaps audio signal.
We're talking about a state secret police here. There is no law or order. There is no "democracy". They have billions of dollars in funding, and a mandate to do whatever they want with essentially zero consequences.
It's Israel....they have enough technology to make the damn shell the explosive plastic that's inert and hard until a certain number mass texts like the EAS system which sets off the internal "ignition" method, probably some high voltage cap discharges enough to begin the reaction ...but honestly I don't know shit about what I'm talking about, just saying the creators of suxnet don't play amateur ball with long term infiltration for an attack vector.
This is also proof they could have gone about this process completely differently, but from a psycho ops (typo is fair) standpoint... I bet Hezbollah doesn't use pagers anymore
The thing about the Geneva Convention is that reciprocity is generally accepted for the modern interpretation. Israel will argue that Hezbollah, besides being a terrorist organization in general, specifically engages in frequent indiscriminate explosive attacks themselves (aka rockets), from Lebanon's territory with official knowledge and as a result they aren't in breach of the Conventions.
Of course, Hezbollah can make similar claims against Israel, especially thanks to their current ethnic cleansing.