At the beginning of the year, a mysterious delivery of weaponized pagers arrived in Lebanon, part of a secret Israeli plan aimed at weakening Hezbollah. These pagers had batteries designed to conceal explosive devices, making them deceptively dangerous. According to sources in Lebanon who have closely studied the pagers, these batteries contained a hidden charge of a powerful explosive and a special detonator that couldn’t be detected by X-rays.

The creators of the pagers faced a signifi...