Tens, perhaps hundreds, of members of the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon are seriously injured after the pagers they use to communicate exploded. According to news sources, over 1,000 people have been injured. The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon is also said to be among the injured. Nyheitsbyrå also reports several people killed. Pagers have also been blown up in Syria, reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. news’s correspondent, Yama Wolasmal is in Beirut no. He calls what has happened very dramatic. – Here in Beirut, the ambulances are howling in all neighbourhoods, especially in South Beirut, where Hezbollah is based, and that is where they are strong, says Wolasmal. news’s correspondent, Yama Wolasmal, is in Beirut now and reports on chaotic conditions. – Spectacular attack – It is a spectacular attack. The size of this suggests that an organization with large resources is behind it. This is what Hanne Eggen-Røselien, a special adviser in the Defense Staff, told news. She says she does not want to speculate on who is behind it. – This attack clearly shows that modern war is advanced operations that consist of much more than just bullets and tanks, says Røselien. Images like this and similar ones have been published on a number of social media in Lebanon and by international media. The picture shows what is supposed to be an exploded pager. Photo: Screenshot / Telegram Asking people to help A Reuters journalist has seen ten Hezbollah members bleeding from wounds in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh. A short time later, Reuters quoted a security source as saying “hundreds of Hezbollah fighters are injured after their pagers explode”. The AFP news agency quotes a source close to Hezbollah as saying that tens of members were injured in such explosions on Tuesday. Health workers across Lebanon are being asked to sign up to help and service personnel are being asked to donate blood. A policeman examines a car where one of the explosions occurred. Photo: Hussein Malla / AP Security failure Another Hezbollah source refers to the attack as the biggest security failure the movement has ever experienced and blames Israel for being behind it. Hand-held pagers are far more primitive than today’s smartphones and are also considered to be far more difficult to track for the uninitiated. According to a Reuters journalist, ambulances shuttled to the southern suburbs of Beirut, where the council turned to panic on Tuesday. Many people gathered at the entrance to several buildings to investigate whether someone they know may have been hit. People gathered outside a hospital in Beirut. Photo: Mohamed Azakir / Reuters Videos show explosions It is unclear how the small pagers could have caused so much damage, unless explosives had been placed inside them. It is also unclear how Israeli intelligence could have succeeded in doing this in that case. Several unverified videos on social media show how the pagers explode in people’s pockets and belts and the owners falling screaming to the ground. Israel’s military leadership has not commented on the matter. Published 17.09.2024, at 16.19 Updated 17.09.2024, at 17.09
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