Both the news agency Reuters and the newspaper The New York Times refer to anonymous sources who claim that the Israeli intelligence service Mossad was behind the attack. At least nine people were killed and close to 3,000 were injured, according to the Ministry of Health in Lebanon. The attack is said to have been carried out by tampering with pagers bought from the company Gold Apollo in Taiwan before they arrived in Lebanon. Reuters writes that small amounts of explosives were planted in around 5,000 pagers. It will mainly concern the model AP924, but also three other types that were part of the delivery. Claims pagers were manufactured in Europe However, a Taiwanese company, Gold Apollo, denies that the pagers were manufactured in Taiwan. – The pagers that exploded in Lebanon were not manufactured in Taiwan, but in Europe by a company that is allowed to use our brand name, says founder Hsu Ching-Kuang in a press release. Hezbollah accuses Israel of being behind the explosions. Israel has so far neither confirmed nor denied that they were involved. Eide: – An escalation in an already very dangerous situation Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide (Ap) calls the explosions in Lebanon a large coordinated attack on thousands of people. Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide. Photo: Hanna Johre / news – I see this as an escalation in an already very dangerous situation. We have long warned against such an escalation. This could lead to an already very serious situation in the Middle East becoming even more serious if we now get a development towards a major regional war, Eide told news on Tuesday evening. Published 18.09.2024, at 04.49 Updated 18.09.2024, at 05.01
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