Second wave of blasts across Lebanon rocks Hezbollah: All you need to know
Israeli fighter jets strike in southern Lebanon after second wave of explosions • Lebanese health officials say over 450 wounded, 20 killed in blasts
Round two? Additional Hezbollah devices explode in southern Lebanon
This comes after thousands of Hezbollah members were wounded on Tuesday after the pagers they used to communicate detonated.
Lebanese media reported another round of explosions throughout the country midday on Wednesday.
Initial vague reports of networked devices exploding came in from Beirut, the Bekaa Valley, and throughout Lebanon.
Go to the full article >>Pager explosions killed 19 IRGC members in Syria - report
An additional 150 IRCG members were also wounded in the explosions, Army Radio reported, citing the Saudi news source.
19 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members were killed after their pagers had exploded in Deir ez-Zur in eastern Syria, Saudi news source Al-Hadath reported Wednesday afternoon.
An additional 150 IRCG members were also wounded in the explosions, Army Radio reported, citing the Saudi news source.
Go to the full article >>Russian foreign ministry calls explosive pager attack against Hezbollah an act of hybrid warfare
The Russian Foreign Ministry called Tuesday's pager attack on Hezbollah terrorists "an act of hybrid warfare" against Lebanon that was meant to provoke war in the Middle East, Reuters reported Wednesday.
Russia followed up by saying that the attack wounded thousands of innocent people.
Go to the full article >>'Harshest blow to the Islamic resistance': Lebanese media shocked at blow to Hezbollah
“In just one minute, the enemy managed to deliver the harshest blow to Islamic resistance since the onset of the conflict,” Al-Ahkbar stated.
Reflecting on the pager attack that reportedly killed around nine and wounded thousands of Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar exposed the extent of the damage in its editorial, calling it one of the most severe blows dealt to the terror organization since it began launching attacks on Israel last October.
“In just one minute, the enemy managed to deliver the harshest blow to Islamic resistance since the onset of the conflict,” the article stated, adding it was “an exceptional security operation in terms of the ability to reach targets and means, and in demonstrating elements of Israeli technological and intelligence superiority."
The article detailed the damage, stating the operation “led to the injury of more than three thousand resistance fighters and civilians from Hezbollah units, who were crowded in hospitals in the south, the Bekaa, Beirut, and the suburbs.”
Go to the full article >>Lebanon's Hezbollah chief will give a speech on Thursday after pagers detonations
Lebanon's Hezbollah chief, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, will give a speech on Thursday, the group said in a statement on Wednesday.
The speech follows the pager detonations across Lebanon on Tuesday that killed nine people and injured around three thousand.
Go to the full article >>Mossad, IDF intel. planted Hezbollah beeper explosives - foreign reports
According to reports, as little as one to two ounces of the explosive material was implanted adjacent to the battery in each pager.
A joint Mossad and IDF intelligence operation led to planting small explosive materials in Hezbollah's beepers, a variety of foreign media have reported, with the Jerusalem Post (which also has extensive Western sources) independently confirming significant details relating to the operation.
Reuters, the New York Times, CNN, Al-Monitor, Axios, and others have put together a picture in which Israel had to use the boobytrapped beepers already on Tuesday or lose the capability since portions of Hezbollah had started to discover the sabotage.
Reports say that Israel hid explosive material within a new batch of Taiwanese-made pagers imported into Lebanon. However, the Taiwanese company Gold Apollo denied making the devices, claiming the Hungarian company BAC manufactured the model using Gold Apollo's licensed brand name.
Go to the full article >>Gold Apollo denies ties to explosive pagers used by Hezbollah, says BAC produces them
Taiwan's Gold Apollo denied responsibility for explosive pagers used in Lebanon, stating they were made by BAC, which licensed its brand.
Taiwanese pager firm Gold Apollo said on Wednesday that Budapest-based BAC Consulting made the pagers used in Lebanon's detonations. The firm added that it had only licensed its brand to the company and was not involved in the production of the devices.
At least nine people were killed and nearly 3,000 wounded when pagers used by Hezbollah members detonated simultaneously across Lebanon on Tuesday. According to a senior Lebanese security source and another source, explosives inside the devices were planted by Israel's Mossad spy agency.
Reuters analyzed images of destroyed pagers, which showed a format and stickers on the back that were consistent with pagers made by Gold Apollo.
Go to the full article >>Gallant conducts situational assessment with security officials
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant conducted a situational assessment with security officials, including IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, on Tuesday evening.
This comes after thousands of Hezbollah members were wounded in Lebanon when the pagers they used to communicate exploded.
Go to the full article >>US urges Iran not to escalate regional tensions following pager attack
“We would urge Iran not to take advantage of any incident, any instability… to further increase tensions in the region,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters in Washington.
The United States warned Iran not to increase risks for a regional war in the aftermath of an unusual attack in which hundreds of Hezbollah pagers exploded in Lebanon, killing at least eight and wounding over 2,700 people.
Go to the full article >>Pager explosions hint at shift in strategy against Hezbollah - analysis
Rigging pagers so that they explode in the hands of hundreds of Hezbollah fighters and operatives simultaneously from Beirut to Damascus is obviously something not done overnight.
Analysis | As the whole Middle East reels from the synchronized explosions of pagers belonging to Hezbollah terrorists, one must ask how this affects future conflict between the terror group and Israel.
Go to the full article >>Hezbollah beeper blast - latest headlines
• Hundreds of Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon in mass pager hack
• Iranian ambassador Mojtaba Amani injured in Hezbollah explosion
• Israel yet to take responsibility for attack