Pagers and drones: How Hezbollah aims to counter Israel's high-tech surveillance

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Coded messages. Landline phones. Pagers. Following the killing of senior commanders in targeted Israeli airstrikes, the Lebanese group, Hezbollah, has been using some low-tech strategies to try to evade its foe’s sophisticated surveillance technology, informed sources told Reuters. It has also been using its own tech – drones – to study and attack Israel’s intelligence gathering capabilities in what Hezbollah’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has described as a strategy of “blinding” Israel. The sides have been trading fire since Hezbollah’s Palestinian ally in the Gaza Strip, Hamas, went to war with Israel in October. While the fighting on Lebanon’s southern border has remained relatively contained, stepped-up attacks in recent weeks have intensified*concern it could spiral*into a full-scale war. Tens of […]

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