Hezbollah in Lebanon: after pagers, walkie-talkies explode
Israel is suspected of remotely detonating thousands of walkie-talkie radios and other devices in a second wave of attacks against Hezbollah. The news is reported by the Telegraph
At least nine people were killed and 300 injured in new explosions in eastern Lebanon and southern Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, on Wednesday, the country's Health Ministry said.
Witnesses and Hezbollah officials said the explosions were caused by the group's walkie-talkies, motorcycle radios and security locks being blown across Lebanon.
The sources told Lebanese news agency L'Orient Today that the devices were detonated inside cars, residential apartments and shops.
Hachem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah's Executive Council, said the Iran-backed group was facing "a new phase" and that "punishment will come."
On Tuesday, thousands of pagers belonging to Hezbollah were detonated simultaneously, killing at least 12 people and wounding nearly 3,000, in an attack blamed on Israel.
Sources told the news website Axios that the booby-trapped pagers were intended to be used as a surprise opening shot in the event of an all-out war with Hezbollah, before the sabotage operation was accelerated over fears it would be exposed .
Since the walkie-talkie uses completely different technologies and radio bands than cell phones and pagers, in my humble opinion, the sabotage took place not at the factory or just through hacking, but through the distribution logistics network.
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