The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that the death toll from yesterday’s wireless device explosions has risen to twenty people, with more than 450 people injured.
Yesterday, small explosions were heard in a number of Lebanese regions from the south to Beirut. Hezbollah officials and state media said that explosions occurred in Beirut and other areas of Lebanon in what appeared to be a second wave of electronic device explosions.
A security source said: “The communications devices that exploded were portable pager radios or other different devices.” He added, “Israel blew up personal radios (walkie-talkies) today.”
The head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Hashem Safieddine, vowed that “the aggression represented by hacking into wireless communication devices and blowing them up in Lebanon will have its own punishment,” stressing that “this punishment is coming inevitably.”
“This aggression will have its own punishment, and the punishment will inevitably come,” Safieddine said during the funeral of four Hezbollah members killed in Tuesday’s attack, noting that “we will be facing a new pattern and a new confrontation with the enemy so that it knows that we are a people who do not retreat.”
Safi al-Din stressed that “if the aim of the aggression is to stop the support battle, then the enemy should be aware that the battle will increase in strength, determination and progress.”
After this series of bombings, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant described it as a “new phase.”
Galant revealed, in a statement, that he spoke with Air Force personnel at the Ramat David base, and assured them that they were opening a “new phase in the war.”
“The center of gravity is shifting to the north, which means we are allocating forces, resources and energy to the northern front,” he continued, adding: “We are at the beginning of a new phase of the war, and we have to adapt to it.”
On Tuesday, Lebanon witnessed widespread attacks that caused the explosion of wireless communication devices (pagers) in a number of areas that are strongholds of Hezbollah in Lebanon, which led to the killing of 12 people, including two children, and the injury of about 2,800 others on Tuesday.
Hezbollah held Israel responsible for the operation, stressing that “this path is continuous and separate from the difficult reckoning that the criminal enemy must face for the massacre it committed against our people, our families, and our mujahideen in Lebanon. This is another reckoning that will come, God willing.”
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2024-09-22 00:59:09