If Pager can Cheekaboom and send u to heaven, then your mobilephone and smartwatch.....

[k1976]

Subscribe
Opinion
Marc Champion, Columnist

Hezbollah Pager Attack Looks Like a Decapitation Strike​

Sabotage hits Hezbollah’s top command as speculation is rife that Netanyahu may expand the Gaza war to Lebanon.
September 18, 2024 at 4:28 AM GMT+8
By Marc Champion
Marc Champion is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Europe, Russia and the Middle East. He was previously Istanbul bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.

Lebanese army soldiers stand guard at the entrance of a hospital in Beirut on September 17, 2024.
Photographer: ANWAR AMRO/AFP
Save
Translate

In what must count as one of the more extraordinary acts of sabotage of all time, as many as 2,800 people, including hundreds of Hezbollah officials, were injured and several killed across Lebanon on Tuesday, according to the country’s health ministry, when the pagers they use to communicate exploded. Somebody transformed the devices into bombs before their distribution, and the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon was among those wounded.

It isn’t as if another smoking gun was needed to establish Iran’s deep integration with members of the so-called arc of resistance it has built around Israel — from Hezbollah to Hamas to the Houthis of Yemen and Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria. Even so, assuming that Iran’s state-run Mehr news agency is properly informed, there it was: a smoking pager, given to the ambassador as

 

[k1976]

Potential Huat Big Big?

 

[k1976]

Israel’s military and the Mossad behind pager explosions that injured thousands in Lebanon​

Charbel Mallo, Tamara Qiblawi, Jeremy Diamond, Lauren Kent, Rob Picheta and Christian Edwards, CNN
Wed, 18 September 2024 at 7:31 am SGT5-min read

Scroll back up to restore default view.
An Israeli attack targeting members of the militant group Hezbollah injured thousands of people across Lebanon on Tuesday and killed several when their pagers exploded almost simultaneously.

A child was among at least nine killed in the blasts, which injured around 2,800 people, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said. At least 170 people are in a critical condition, he said, though the nature of the other injuries is unclear.

Videos circulating on social media and news agencies appear to show powerful explosions in various locations. In one CCTV video, a man can be seen picking out fruit in a supermarket when an explosion tears his bag to shreds. Bystanders can be seen running away as they hear the explosion, while the man drops to the ground clutching his lower abdomen. After several seconds, he can be heard groaning in pain.

 

[k1976]

 

[k1976]