The Lebanese Health Ministry has declared 11 dead, more 4.000 injured, including 200 critically, as a result of numerous explosions of the communication devices of the Hezbollah operatives.
The explosions in Lebanon began at around 3.45 local time on Tuesday, September 17 and lasted for about an hour. Communication devices, believed to be used by Hezbollah operatives, heated up and eventually exploded while in the hands or in the packers of their owners.
According to Lebanese media reports, the hospitals in the county are overflowing with injured people.
Israel has not commented on the attack, which took place just several hours after the news that Israeli security officials thwarted an assassination attempt on a former security official.
The next day on Wednesday, several explosions were reported in the Dahieh area of Beirut, Lebanon, as exploding hand-held radios killed at least five people and injured approximately 500.
Without confirmation on who did it, many are convinced that Israel executed this attack. Abu Ali via Amir Tsarfati on Telegram posted: this is “the most fantastic pre-emptive strike in modern history.” The facts are that “Hezbollah has thousands of brand-new disabled fighters, and if they enter the war now, its wounded will not even find one free bed in the hospitals in Lebanon because the hospitals are now bursting with injured. Even worse – is that Hezbollah has lost its security and military means of communication.” All of this sounds like a devastating humiliation for Hezbollah too.
Sources:
11 Dead, More than 4,000 Injured in a Wave of Lebanese Pager Explosions, by Anna Epshtein/TPS-IL