Your phone likely has a lithium ion battery. that battery can explode, as we saw with the Galaxy Note 7 a while back, but it has a different type of explosion. While the video here seems to be a quick pop that's powerful enough to knock someone down, a lithium ion battery will be more like a sustained flamethrower grenade.
Because a pager is small, so you can't hide a very big grenade inside it. It might also have been a deliberate decision since you're just trying to kill the guy with the pager and not the entire room.
and why were they targeting a random cashier?
They weren't, the cashier ran off. It was the customer who dropped to the floor after the pager exploded on his waist.
for those wondering:
Your phone likely has a lithium ion battery. that battery can explode, as we saw with the Galaxy Note 7 a while back, but it has a different type of explosion. While the video here seems to be a quick pop that's powerful enough to knock someone down, a lithium ion battery will be more like a sustained flamethrower grenade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx9jfJB60io
That was actually my first question.
Why wasn't it more powerful? and why were they targeting a random cashier? I still think this was just a battery exploding randomly.
Because a pager is small, so you can't hide a very big grenade inside it. It might also have been a deliberate decision since you're just trying to kill the guy with the pager and not the entire room.
They weren't, the cashier ran off. It was the customer who dropped to the floor after the pager exploded on his waist.
it's being reported on in the news. there's a body count.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hundreds-wounded-dead-beirut-after-israel-remotely-detonates-hezbollah-pagers
I've read that since and seen more videos.