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The '''Gold Apollo AR924''' is an alphanumeric one-way ] in a ] sold under the brandname of the Taiwanese company ].<ref name=":30">{{Cite web |title=Rugged Pager AR924|url=https://www.gapollo.com.tw/product/ar-924/ |access-date=17 September 2024 |website=Gold Apollo|archive-url=https://archive.is/Kw0Pg|archive-date=17 Sep 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://apollosystemshk.com/product/42.html |work= Apollo Systems HK |title= Gold Apollo Rugged Pager AR924 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240917160632/https://apollosystemshk.com/product/42.html |archive-date=17 September 2024 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Apollo Systems HK video">{{cite AV media | date = December 13, 2022 | title = 【Introduction】Gold Apollo Rugged Pager AR924【AR924】Rugged Pager【Gold Apollo】 | type = YouTube video | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x50wwGjX2Ao |
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| access-date = September 22, 2024 | publisher = Apollo Systems HK | archive-url = https://archive.is/T6J4L | archive-date = September 18, 2024 }}</ref> According to a statement published by Gold Apollo on their web page on 18 September 2024, they are not the manufacturer of the device used in the ], and had instead licensed the brand to the Hungarian company ].<ref name="Gold Apollo Statement">{{Cite web |title=Gold Apollo Co., Ltd, Statement |access-date=18 September 2024 |url=https://www.gapollo.com.tw/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240918090606/https://www.gapollo.com.tw/ |archive-date=18 September 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NYT Apollo">{{Cite news |title=Taiwan Company Tries to Distance Itself From Pagers Used in Lebanon Attack |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/asia/taiwan-pagers-lebanon.html |work = New York Times|date=18 September 2024 |access-date=18 September 2024}}</ref> |
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The pager is notable for 5,000 sabotaged units purchased by ] having been detonated simultaneously on 17 September 2024 while being viewed a few seconds after receiving an apparent message from the group. |
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== Specification of original and modified pager== |
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The PC-programmable and hand-programmable pager weighs 90 g, and is 7.3cm wide, 5cm high, and 2.7cm thick. It has four buttons with two-way scrolling, a four-line LCD screen, and a removable lithium battery, rechargeable via a ] connector, lasting up to 85 days with 2.5 hours of charging.<ref name=":30" /> |
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The AR924 allows the user to store up to 30 messages with a maximum length of 100 characters. Its ] is 512/1200/2400 bit/s for ]. |
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The modified pager had space sufficient for a small explosive charge, sufficient to cause serious or fatal injury when held close to the face, and is believed to have beeped for several seconds at 15:30 local time on 17 September 2024, giving time to be brought near the face to read an expected message from Hezbollah, then detonating.<ref>{{cite news| last=Sabbagh | first=Dan | last2=Bayer | first2=Lili | last3=Milmo | first3=Dan | title=Pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah were audacious and carefully planned |newspaper=The Guardian | date=18 September 2024 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/pager-and-walkie-talkie-attacks-on-hezbollah-were-audacious-and-carefully-planned}} Article includes a diagram of the pager.</ref> |
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== Sales == |
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The AR924 model is not available for sale in Taiwan nor the United States. More broadly, direct exports of Gold Apollo-manufactured pagers from Taiwan amount to some 260,000 sets between the start of 2022 and August 2024 (including over 40,000 between January and August 2024), mostly to the ], ] and ], according to Taiwan's ].<ref>{{cite news |title=What we know about the Taiwanese firm caught up in Lebanon’s exploding pagers attack |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/18/business/gold-apollo-taiwan-lebanon-exploding-pagers-hnk-intl/index.html |access-date=18 September 2024 |publisher=CNN |date=18 September 2024}}</ref> |
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The ministry's figures recorded no direct exports of any Gold Apollo-manufactured pagers from Taiwan to Lebanon during the same period, however indirect exports via third parties could not be ruled out.<ref>{{cite news |title=Taiwanese company Gold Apollo says it didn’t make pagers used in Lebanon |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/18/gold-apollo-hezbollah-lebanon-pagers/ |access-date=18 September 2024 |publisher=Washington Post |date=17 September 2024}}</ref> |
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== Israeli manufacturing and explosions in Lebanon == |
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{{Main|2024 Lebanon pager explosions}} |
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Israeli intelligence personnel are believed to have manufactured the pagers that were shipped to Hezbollah included with explosives in the battery.<ref>{{Cite news |title=How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah.html |work=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Sabbagh |first=Dan |date=2024-09-19 |title=Israeli front-controlled manufacturing process likeliest explanation for attacks on Hezbollah |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/israeli-front-controlled-manufacturing-process-likeliest-explanation-for-attacks-on-hezbollah |access-date=2024-09-21 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> |
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On 17 September 2024, some 5,000 AR924 pagers exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and parts of Syria, at around 3:30 pm local time, killing 12 people and injuring over 2,750.<ref name="u7362">{{cite web |last1=Belam |first1=Martin |last2=Lowe |first2=Yohannes |last3=Chao-Fong |first3=Léonie |last4=Ambrose |first4=Tom |last5=Graham-Harrison |first5=Emma |last6=Sabbagh |first6=Dan |last7=Wintour |first7=Patrick |date=17 September 2024 |title=Lebanon attacks 'an extremely concerning escalation', says UN official, as Hezbollah threatens retaliation – live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/17/middle-east-crisis-live-netanyahu-expands-gaza-war-aims-blinken-heads-to-egypt |access-date=17 September 2024 |website=The Guardian}}</ref> The explosions appeared to be a co-ordinated attack against the ] ] political party and ] group ].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=17 September 2024 |title=Hezbollah official: Exploded pagers were a new brand, replaced cellphones at Nasrallah's order |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hezbollah-official-exploded-pagers-were-a-new-brand-replaced-cellphones-at-nasrallahs-order/ |access-date=17 September 2024 |website=The Times of Israel}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite web |date=2024-09-17 |title=Exploding Hezbollah devices reportedly issued in recent days |url=https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-exploding-hezbollah-devices-reportedly-issued-in-recent-days |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=i24NEWS |language=en}}</ref><ref name="u7362" /> Reportedly, some 500 Hezbollah members lost their eyesight in the explosions - however, no further elaboration on this number was provided.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Some 500 Hezbollah members lost eyesight in pager explosions|magazine=The Times of Israel|date=18 September 2024|access-date=18 September 2024|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-some-500-hezbollah-members-lost-eyesight-in-pager-explosions/}}</ref><ref name="tim" /> |
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Initially-circulated photos of the damaged pagers showed components displaying the logo of Gold Apollo, leading to online speculation that the pagers involved had originated from its factories in Taiwan. |
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The following day, Gold Apollo founder Hsu Ching-Kuang told reporters in Taiwan that the company did not manufacture the pagers involved in the explosions, but that they were made by its long-term partner, the Hungary-based company BAC Consulting KFT,<ref>{{cite news |title=Hungarian firm tied to pager blasts in Lebanon unmasked |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bytqokop0 |work=] |date=18 September 2024}}</ref> under a licence that had been in place for three years.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gold-apollo-says-it-did-not-make-pagers-used-lebanon-explosion-2024-09-18/|date=2024-09-18|accessdate=2024-09-18|title=Gold Apollo says it did not make pagers used in Lebanon explosions|website=]}}</ref><ref name=tim> ''Barrons''.</ref><ref> ''Time''.</ref> BAC Consulting KFT cooperated with Gold Apollo and represented many of its products.<ref> ''Al Arabiya''.</ref> However, Gold Apollo did not provide any evidence of the contract.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lebanon pager blasts: Budapest-based BAC Consulting KFT under scrutiny |url=https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/lebanon-pager-blasts-budapest-based-bac-consulting-kft-under-scrutiny-5-key-facts-about-the-company-11726649234376.html |work=] |date=18 September 2024}}</ref> ] which investigated BAC's official address in Budapest could not find any employees, resulting in speculation of it being a shell company.<ref>{{cite news |title=BAC: Hungarian firm in focus of Hezbollah pager explosions – DW – 09/18/2024 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/bac-hungarian-firm-in-focus-of-hezbollah-pager-explosions/a-70248830 |access-date=18 September 2024 |work=dw.com |language=en}}</ref> Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, the CEO of BAC Consultancy denied they manufactured the devices claiming them to be intermediaries.<ref>{{cite news |title=British-educated businesswoman denies making Hezbollah pagers which killed 12 people |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/hezbollah-pagers-explosions-bac-consulting-israel-hungary-b2615049.html |access-date=18 September 2024 |work=The Independent |date=18 September 2024 |language=en}}</ref> |
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== See also == |
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* {{Section link|Casio F-91W|Usage in terrorism}} |
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* {{Section link|Samsung Galaxy Note 7|Battery explosions and recalls}} |
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