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		meindnoch on Sept 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in ... Reminds me of two things: 1. Mossad killed the chief bombmaker of Hamas with an exploding phone in 1996: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash 2. My grandma used to say not to wear my phone on me, especially close to my heart or my balls, because she thought it was dangerous somehow. Turns out she was right!

moussasissoko on Sept 17, 2024 | [–]

Yahya Ayyash was a bombmaker for Hamas, not Hezbollah.

meindnoch on Sept 17, 2024 | | [–]

True. Mea culpa!

fernandotakai on Sept 18, 2024 | [–]

it was not the mossad, it was the shin bet.

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