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Exploding pagers kill nine and injure thousands in an attack on Hezbollah

September 18, 2024

Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Saida on September 17, 2024. — *Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Saida on September 17th.* | Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat / AFP via Getty Images

Thousands of people have reportedly been injured by exploding pagers across Lebanon and Syria. Lebanon’s health minister, Firass Abiad, said nine people, including a child, have been killed, and around 2,800 others have been injured, as reported by Lebanese state media agency NNA.

Later Tuesday evening, the New York Times reported:

Israel carried out its operation against Hezbollah on Tuesday by hiding explosive material within a new batch of Taiwanese-made pagers imported into Lebanon, according to American and other officials briefed on the operation.

Reuters reports, based on information from a “senior Lebanese security source and another source,” that this spring, Hezbollah imported 5,000 pagers that were supposedly from Gold Apollo,…