Was Operation Buzz a pager attack? People are calling it the work of the dreaded Mossad.

Who would have thought that the almost extinct technology pager would be in the news again? Recently, a sudden explosion of a paging device in Lebanon killed nine people and injured thousands. After the incident, Hezbollah accused Israel of launching an attack, but this claim has not yet been confirmed.

The incident regarding the pager attack has created a lot of buzz on social media. The incident has further heightened the already ongoing tensions between Israel and Hezbollah. Israel has denied the attack, but some social media accounts are celebrating it. It is allegedly an operation by Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad. There has been a lot of speculation about the attack, with the use of pagers and their technical malfunctions remaining a major topic of discussion.

Let’s look at what is being talked about in order.

“Operation Buzzer” sparks discussion

There is a page called @MossadCommentary on the social media platform X. News and videos supporting Israel are often posted here. The term “buzzer operation” is used in posts related to it. In fact, the term is about pager attacks, referring to the pager explosions that occurred in Beirut and other places on Tuesday. According to BBC News, 9 people have been killed and more than 2,800 people have been injured.

Let us tell you that pagers are also called buzzers. Pagers were first used in New York City in 1950. Initially, messages could only be sent within a 40-kilometer range. It began to be used around the world in the 1980s.

Read some posts

One post read: “Operation Buzzer: Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Suffers Serious Eye Injury.” One wrote: “In my counter-terrorism research, I have studied many operations related to the use of explosives. I must say that Operation Buzzer or Pager is the best operation I have ever seen to harm terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah.”

What is the dispute between Hezbollah and Israel?

The root of Hezbollah’s tensions with Israel is the Palestinian issue. Hezbollah is a Shia Islamic extremist group active in Lebanon. Many of its attacks are directed against Israel, and Hezbollah claims they support Palestinian rights and protest against Israeli policies. They also support Hamas, Israel’s open enemy.