2024-09-18 18:25:55
Many believe that the cause of the explosions is some kind of hacking attack that could cause the batteries to overheat
Eight people died and 2,750 were injured in a series of simultaneous pager blasts across Lebanon, Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad said.
According to the minister, 200 of the wounded are in critical condition, world agencies write.
The Shiite movement Hezbollah said the explosions killed two of its members and a little girl, and wounded hundreds of people in the group’s ranks.
The movement directly accused Israel of being behind the operation, and added that it is conducting its own investigation to establish the reasons, BTA writes.
A Reuters journalist reported seeing ten bloodied Hezbollah fighters in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiya.
The agencies said the pagers were used by members of the Shia movement to communicate with each other.
Hezbollah’s statement said Israel was “fully responsible for this criminal aggression, which was also directed against civilians.”
Israel has not commented on what happened in Lebanon.
But the events come hours after Israel’s security cabinet declared the safe return of 60,000 residents displaced in the country’s north by Hezbollah attacks as one of its official military objectives.
Many believe that the cause of the explosions was some kind of hacking attack that could have caused pager batteries to overheat, which would be completely unprecedented, writes the BBC.
Israel has a rich history of conducting sophisticated and sophisticated cyber attacks against adversaries.
But it seems unlikely that the attack was carried out in this way.
Experts point to the fact that the footage of the explosions does not correspond to overheating of the battery.
The first theories are that it is about the so-called a supply chain attack where pagers have been tampered with during production or in transit.