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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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  1. LB
    Lebanese Ministry of Health
    1. The Ministry requests all citizens who own wireless communications devices to stay away from them until the truth of what is happening is revealed.
  2. LB
    Hezbollah
    1. The enemy (Israel) stands behind this security incident.
    2. We hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression that also targeted civilians.
    3. This criminal and treacherous enemy will definitely receive a fair punishment for this sinful assault, both in ways that are expected and unexpected.
  3. LB
    Hassan Nasrallah
    Hezbollah
    1. The phone that we have in our hands -- I do not have a phone in my hand -- is a listening device.
  4. LB
    Firass Abiad
    Lebanese Ministry of Health
    1. About 2,750 people were injured... more than 200 of them critically.
  5. US
    Matthew Miller
    US State Department
    1. I don't have any assessment to offer one way or other at this point.
    2. 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.
    3. The US was not aware of this incident in advance, and at this point, we're gathering information.
    4. 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.
    5. We are always concerned about any type of event that may cause further escalation.
  6. TW
    Hsu Ching-Kuang
    Gold Apollo Co
    1. I'm just doing my business, why am I getting involved in a terrorist attack?
    2. The product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it.
  7. SY
    Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
    1. Fourteen people whose nationalities are unknown have been wounded in Damascus and its countryside after pagers used by Hezbollah exploded.
  8. Avi Melamed
    1. Hezbollah regressed back to these devices thinking [they] would be safer for its combatants to use instead of phones which could be GPS targeted.

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sources

  1. 1.The Guardian
  2. 2.The Times of India
  3. 3.CNA News
  4. 4.BBC
  5. 5.CNN
  6. 6.Al Jazeera
  7. 7.The New York Times
  8. 8.France 24
  9. 9.CTV News
  10. 10.The Times
  11. 11.Daily Sabah
  12. 12.Ars Technica

perspectives

  1. 1.US Foreign Policy
  2. 2.Israel-Palestine Conflict
  3. 3.British Foreign Policy
  4. 4.Israel Foreign Policy
  5. 5.Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu
  6. 6.2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
  7. 7.Iran Foreign Policy
  8. 8.Ethnic tensions
  9. 9.French Foreign Policy
  10. 10.Israel-Lebanese Hezbollah Conflict
  11. 11.Espionage
  12. 12.Italian Foreign Policy

countries

  1. 1.AustraliaAU
  2. 2.ChinaCN
  3. 3.GermanyDE
  4. 4.EgyptEG
  5. 5.FranceFR
  6. 6.United KingdomGB
  7. 7.HaitiHT
  8. 8.HungaryHU
  9. 9.IsraelIL
  10. 10.IraqIQ
  11. 11.Iran, Islamic Republic ofIR
  12. 12.ItalyIT

organizations

  1. 1.HezbollahLB
  2. 2.Gold Apollo Co
  3. 3.HamasPS
  4. 4.BAC Consulting KFT
  5. 5.Mossad
  6. 6.American University of Beirut
  7. 7.Shia
  8. 8.Shin BetIL
  9. 9.Israel Defense ForcesIL
  10. 10.Lebanese Ministry of HealthLB
  11. 11.TelegramAE
  12. 12.US State DepartmentUS

persons

  1. 1.Firass AbiadLB
  2. 2.Mojtaba Amani
  3. 3.Hassan NasrallahLB
  4. 4.Hsu Ching-KuangTW
  5. 5.Benjamin NetanyahuIL
  6. 6.Matthew MillerUS
  7. 7.Yoav GalantIL
  8. 8.Ali Ammar
  9. 9.Ismail Haniyeh
  10. 10.Mohamed Shia Al-Sudani
  11. 11.Anthony BlinkenUS
  12. 12.Ronen BergmanIL

technicals

  1. 1.AR-924
  2. 2.Bekaa Valley
  3. 3.Zionist
  4. 4.West Bank
  5. 5.Christianity
  6. 6.Golan Heights
  7. 7.iPhone
  8. 8.Kashmir Valley
  9. 9.Litani River
  10. 10.Spies Against Armageddon
  11. 11.Stuxnet
  12. 12.Burkan
Exploding Pagers Kill Eight and Injure Thousands in Lebanon, Including Hezbollah Members