2024-09-19 14:39:00
AFP
A man places a portrait of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah with flowers at a memorial site set up outside the Lebanese embassy in Tehran on September 18, 2024
The death toll in coordinated blasts rose to 37 pagers e walkie-talkies no Lebanon from last Tuesday (17), according to a bulletin from the country’s Ministry of Health.
The action targeted devices used by the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, supported by Iran and an alliance of Hamas, and it has been attributed to the movement that Israel, did not comment on the episode publicly.
The attack began last Tuesday, with the detonation of explosives hidden in thousands of pagers bought by Hezbollah, which left 25 dead, and continued on Wednesday (18), with 12 deaths in walkie-talkie explosions, including during the wake of the day’s victims. The Ministry of Health report also includes more than 3,500 injuries.
According to Hezbollah, at least 20 members of the group are among the victims in Lebanon, and there are also reports of deaths in Damascus, the capital of Syria.
Amid rising tensions, drones launched from Lebanon that were loaded with explosives left several people injured in northern Israel this Thursday (19). “The enemy will not be able to overcome the resistance and its support for Gaza,” said Hezbollah deputy, Hajj Hassan, at a funeral in Baalbeck.
Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, promised Israel would be “fairly punished” for the attacks in recent days and defined Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as a “terrorist regime”, but did not name it.
Pager and walkie-talkie blasts have been condemned by most of the international community for indiscriminately targeting civilians – including children.
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