https://www.timesofisrael.com/use-it-or-lose-it-israel-reportedly-set-off-pagers-amid-fears-plot-was-exposed/
TLDR: They expected Hezbollah was just about to figure out that the pagers were tampered with so that's why they set them off now.
This explains a lot. I was really confused at how they could be smart enough to pull off an operation like this but then stupid enough to set it off at a random time. You would expect an attack like this to happen on day 1 of an invasion when it would cause maximum chaos.
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