Since the start of the Gaza war, Israel has been deploying a tactic known as GPS 'spoofing', which is designed to fool enemy missiles but has also had detrimental impacts on civilian life.
Booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies are not the only ways Israel has been hitting Hezbollah's communications.
The situation has even led some Israelis to return to traditional paper maps, as an analogue solution to the digital disruption.GPS is one of the most significant digital developments the world has seen in recent decades. Professor Todd Humphreys from the University of Texas told the ABC the chosen location was "fairly arbitrary".
"Because a spoofing signal gets past many of the checks inside a GPS receiver, it can be less powerful and yet have an effect further from the transmitter."Spoofing is being deployed almost constantly in cities like Haifa in northern Israel and Tyre in southern Lebanon, regularly in other parts of those countries and the Occupied Palestinian territories, and sometimes even in Jordan and other nations in the region.
Aeroplanes rely on accurate GPS data for their most basic functions, including measuring their altitude. When the incorrect signals are given, sensors begin to fail, flash warnings and instruct pilots to pull up. Beyond air traffic, the spoofing is hitting maritime and land movement as well as "affecting emergency responders fighting wildfires and medical emergencies ," Mr Kataya said.Lebanese personality Anthony Rahayel took to social media in June to warn how even his small video drone was affected and crashed into the mountains.
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