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The troops heard “detonations,” the military said, and two soldiers opened fire, stopping a truck that, it turned out, was transporting the migrants.

Its communications have been sabotaged with the shocking detonations of its pagers and walkie-talkies, and many of its weapons have been destroyed in air strikes.

In the days following, Israel staged a two-day wave of detonations with booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah, followed by intensive airstrikes and targeted pursuit of the group’s top leadership.

That attack came days after the mass detonation of the hand-held communication devices that Hezbollah relied on to evade Israeli spyware.

Israel’s leaders are jubilant about the progress of the offensive against Hezbollah that started with the detonation of weaponised pagers and radios and moved on to intense and deadly airstrikes.