Also, Israel already assassinated someone by exploding their cell phone way back in 1996.
Yahya Ayyash nicknamed “The Engineer” was a Palestinian terrorist, one of the founders of Hamas’s Ezz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades And one of those responsible for introducing the method of suicide bombings in the 90s as part of Palestinian terrorism in Israel. These terrorist attacks claimed the lives of over a hundred Israelis. Israel Shin bet Service assassinated Eish using a booby-trapped cell phone in 1996.
But there is a very interesting titbit in Wikipedia. He wanted to go to Jordan to study, but his visa application was declined by the Israeli authorities and only then he turned into terrorism.
The most successful way to fight terrorism is to provide those people some future, some prosperity, some hope. People turn to terrorism when they are struggling, when they don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel.
Does that mean, all of us are wearing a bomb with Lithium battery, most of the time? On the other hand: does such battery really be this hazardous? I thought they catch fire and burn down slowly.
I thought they catch fire and burn down slowly.
Correct. Both the recent pager and radio attacks, and the 1996 cell phone attack, were performed by planting military explosives inside the devices in advance.
There is no magical way to hack the electronics to make a lithium battery straight up explode.
