- More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, security sources told Reuters.
A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation of the pagers was the "biggest security breach" the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of war with Israel.
Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the Gaza war erupted last October, the worst such escalation in years.
The Israeli military declined to comment on Reuters enquiries about the detonations.
Iran's Mehr news agency said the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was injured by one of the blasts. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.
A Reuters journalist saw ambulances rushing through the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, amid widespread panic. A security source said that devices were also exploding in the south of Lebanon.
At Mt. Lebanon hospital, a Reuters reporter saw motorcycles rushing to the emergency room, where people with their hands bloodied were screaming in pain.
The head of the Nabatieh public hospital in the south of the country, Hassan Wazni, told Reuters that around 40 wounded people were being treated at his facility. The wounds included injuries to the face, eyes and limbs.
What Israel has just done is, via *any* method, reckless. They blew up countless numbers of people who were driving (meaning cars out of control), shopping (your children are in the stroller standing behind him in the checkout line), et cetera. Indistinguishable from terrorism.
@XfactorSnailVeteran4wks4W
It’s not indistinguishable from terrorism, it IS terrorism. Textbook terrorism: wanton violence inflicted on civilian populations with total disregard for innocent life.
@SaltChloeRepublican4wks4W
I would really like the details on how exactly that happens (as an electrical engineer). The videos I'm seeing it's a full immediate explosion, when lithium batteries are overloaded they tend heat up, spark than explode which would allow someone to get away from it. This is sick
@EqualityCraneVeteran4wks4W
Understand what happened here. Israel assassinated Hezbollah’s chief of staff smack in the middle of Beirut. So Hezbollah realized it could no longer use cell phones and switched to pagers.
The only problem? They were unknowingly buying explosive pagers from the Mossad
Are you sure that the pagers were Israeli-issued, or were they just compromised after the fact?
@EqualityCraneVeteran4wks4W
I mean this is all conjecture, but the fact that Israel made 1200 pagers explode at the exact same time makes it a lot more likely that Israel was the supplier of the pagers
You gotta think that some battery hack wouldn't be this reliable/effective
@5P69887Libertarian4wks4W
Lots of giddiness about the mass remote explosion attack across Lebanon today. I’m sure the kids who witnessed limbs getting randomly blown off in grocery stores will appreciate the technological sophistication of the attack. They’ll grow into huge admirers of Israel and the US
Yeah, like they weren't already brain washed with hate and used as human meat shields. This makes no difference at all. They were violently anti-semitic before and they will be violently anti-Semitic in the future.
I will not shed a tear for terrorists who played a role in slaughtering 1039 on 10/7.
Tough for Israel to survive surrounded by so many with a singular purpose to destroy.
@5P69887Libertarian4wks4W
That was Hamas, not Hezbollah
@7XCVS5XRepublican4wks4W
If they bomb Hezbollah people complain. If they strategically strike them, people complain. Is Israel supposed to just accept the thousands of rockets flying into its country so that people won’t complain?
@VotingLilyLibertarian4wks4W
This is crazy because if we ignore the conflict and think about what actually happened it’s crazy. If they could hack a pager which isn’t even that advanced imagine what a government or terrorist organization could do to a phone
@7XCVS5XRepublican4wks4W
Reports are now at over 1,000 Hezbollah have been injured.
Hezbollah uses these pagers for encrypted communication to avoid detection by the IDF.
Now both their communications network is gone and each Hezbollah terrorist got an epic ‘I see you’ message
@GrassrootsArtDemocrat4wks4W
Israel just popped the hezballoons
This operation is straight out of a movie.
Legitimately.
Saying its “Biblical” would be accurate.
@AmusedCapitalistForward4wks4W
Minimal collateral damage to people standing inches away. Wow!
@ISIDEWITH4wks4W
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