Even a dumbphone with the GPS physically removed is going to be a lot easier to target than a one-way pager, since they are always chatting with the cell towers.

Pagers don’t have GPS devices embedded in them - that you know of.

If you can’t control your supply chain then that isn’t guaranteed.

After all, most pagers don’t contain explosive charges either.

Even dumb phones can be tracked by antenna triangulation, and I wouldn't be surprised if Israeli hackers are inside Lebanese phone networks...

GPS is receive only.