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Exploding Pagers Kill Eight and Injure Thousands in Lebanon, Including Hezbollah Members
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A series of explosions occurred in Lebanon on Tuesday, September 17, targeting pagers belonging to Hezbollah members, resulting in at least 12 deaths and over 3,000 injuries. The explosions were reportedly caused by explosives embedded in the pagers, which detonated when they received a routine message.
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The enemy (Israel) stands behind this security incident.
We hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression that also targeted civilians.
This criminal and treacherous enemy will definitely receive a fair punishment for this sinful assault, both in ways that are expected and unexpected.
The Ministry requests all citizens who own wireless communications devices to stay away from them until the truth of what is happening is revealed.
The phone that we have in our hands -- I do not have a phone in my hand -- is a listening device.
About 2,750 people were injured... more than 200 of them critically.
I don't have any assessment to offer one way or other at this point.
We would urge Iran not to take advantage of any incident to try to add further instability and to further increase tensions in the region.
The US was not aware of this incident in advance, and at this point, we're gathering information.
He'll be meeting with Egyptian officials about a number of things, but squarely on the agenda is how we get a proposal that we think would secure agreement from both parties.
We are always concerned about any type of event that may cause further escalation.
I'm just doing my business, why am I getting involved in a terrorist attack?
The product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it.
Fourteen people whose nationalities are unknown have been wounded in Damascus and its countryside after pagers used by Hezbollah exploded.
So if [the Lebanon explosions] are something that Israel is in fact responsible for, this is certainly discouraging to the United States.
President Biden doesn't have a whole lot of time, the US election is less than 60 days away.
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sources
- 1.Al Jazeera
- 2.The Times of India
- 3.The Guardian
- 4.BBC
- 5.The New York Times
- 6.CNA News
- 7.Le Monde
- 8.France 24
- 9.DW News
- 10.The Washington Post
- 11.CNN
- 12.CTV News
perspectives
- 1.US Foreign Policy
- 2.Israel-Palestine Conflict
- 3.British Foreign Policy
- 4.Israel Foreign Policy
- 5.Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu
- 6.2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
- 7.Iran Foreign Policy
- 8.Ethnic tensions
- 9.French Foreign Policy
- 10.Israel-Lebanese Hezbollah Conflict
- 11.Espionage
- 12.Italian Foreign Policy
countries
- 1.Israel
- 2.Lebanon
- 3.Iran, Islamic Republic of
- 4.Taiwan, Province of China
- 5.United States
- 6.Palestine, State of
- 7.Syrian Arab Republic
- 8.Hungary
- 9.China
- 10.Iraq
- 11.Russian Federation
- 12.Egypt
organizations
- 1.Hezbollah
- 2.Gold Apollo Co
- 3.Hamas
- 4.BAC Consulting KFT
- 5.Mossad
- 6.American University of Beirut
- 7.Shia
- 8.Shin Bet
- 9.Israel Defense Forces
- 10.Lebanese Ministry of Health
- 11.Telegram
- 12.US State Department
persons
- 1.Firass Abiad
- 2.Mojtaba Amani
- 3.Hassan Nasrallah
- 4.Hsu Ching-Kuang
- 5.Benjamin Netanyahu
- 6.Matthew Miller
- 7.Yoav Galant
- 8.Ali Ammar
- 9.Ismail Haniyeh
- 10.Mohamed Shia Al-Sudani
- 11.Anthony Blinken
- 12.Ronen Bergman