Few possibilities:

1) Prelude to a war that throws them off balance (looking unlikely)

2) The vulnerability was about to be discovered so had to be used immediately

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Whoa, if it's yours that's quite the source there to confirm that.

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Discussion with informed party. It’s also now been reported by AlMonitor

wow 

how’d you confirm this? would love to see the info if you’re able to share

This was what I saw mentioned on twitter …

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This was what I saw mentioned on twitter … https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1836160598629069048?s=46&t=TVy9rDl3UkuxmVj4e18bOA

Secretly injected with explosives after being ordered from Taiwan.

Whether it was targeted it’s hard to say entirely but I think it was relatively targeted.

Do you know where I can read more about this? 

Getting all kinds of conflicting information, like were the pagers designed with self destruct features and got hacked, or secretly injected with explosives before delivery?

Also was this a targeted attack or did thousands of innocent people just have their pagers explode?