On a more serious note.
Israel will be mapping out injuries, hospital admissions,
social media posts, electronic communications,
news footage, and medical records, linking them
all to people who had these pagers today.
Forget the injuries and deaths; Israel just created a
massive and growing trove of information about both
known and previously unknown Hezbollah militants,
as well as their supporters, partners, friends,
family members, colleagues, workplaces, vehicles, and homes.
They just created an incredibly dense and *up-to-date* social graph of an entire terrorist network, across Lebanon as well as neighboring countries. It is incredible what they just did.
(Imagine being in a dark room with a massive Christmas tree in it. The tree has thousands of electric lights strewn all over it, but they’re unlit because the wall plug is not plugged into the wall socket.) (Now, plug it in.)