The greatest intelligence operation in recent history

The details of the Mossad operation against Hezbollah is so incredible, you would think it would be implausible as a film plot. They include.

• Built 5,000 pagers and sold them to Hezbollah
• Each pager weighed less than 80 grams
• Had a special two-step de-encryption procedure that ensured most users would be holding the pager with both hands when it detonated, as it was an encrypted message that was the trigger. This meant it was likely the Hezbollah members would have such severe damage to their hands they couldn’t hold a gun in future.
• The bomb component was so carefully hidden as to be virtually undetectable and it is understood Hezbollah did disassemble some of the pagers and may have even X-rayed them yet didn’t detect anything.
• The booby-trapped walkie-talkies were sold to Hezbollah in 2015, and were undeterred for nine years
• The walkie-talkies gave Israel complete access to Hezbollah communications

All forms of warfare result in some casualties of people who are not military targets. For example 500,000 German civilians died in WWII. But this operation probably saw one of the smallest level of non-targeted deaths in recent times.