1 day Ago By Richard Lawler
A day after killed 12 people, including two children, and injured nearly 3,000 people in Lebanon and Syria, the attacks started again. 14 people have died, along with hundreds injured in the second wave of explosions. Lebanese state media agency reports they resulted from wireless devices like walkie-talkies and fingerprint analysis devices that also damaged cars and motorcycles and started fires, including one at a lithium battery store.
At least one of the exploding devices on Wednesday went off in the middle of a funeral procession for several of the people killed in the previous attack, causing additional panic as people ran for safety and were asked to remove the batteries from their cellphones. , a source said the walkie-talkies were purchased months ago, around the same time as the booby-trapped pagers. Overnight, media and that the pager blasts were the result of an operation by Israel that placed a board with up to three grams of explosive material inside the devices before they were shipped out.
Israeli officials have not commented on the attacks directly. that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, “The IDF brings excellent achievements, together with the Shin Bet, together with Mossad, all the bodies and all the frameworks and the results are very impressive results..
. I appreciate that we are at the beginning of a new era in this war and we need to adapt ourselves.” The pagers bore the brand of a Taiwanese company, Gold Apollo, but its CEO told reporters that they did not make the devices purchased by Hezbollah.
Instead, BAC, a distributor in Hungary, produced them under license. On Wednesday, the Hungarian government said the pagers were not manufactured there and that “the company in question is a trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary,” . In response to Tuesday’s explosions, : /.
