news Hundreds of Hezbollah operatives' pagers explode in apparent attack across Lebanon

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Pagers carried by hundreds of Hezbollah operatives exploded over a short period Tuesday, leaving many of them injured in an unprecedented event that struck across Lebanon.

 

The affected pagers were from a new shipment that the group received in recent days, people familiar with the matter said. A Hezbollah official said hundreds of fighters had such devices, speculating that malware may have caused the devices to heat up and explode. The official said some people felt the pagers heat up and disposed of them before they burst.

 

It couldn't immediately be determined what caused the blasts, which were spread out across the country in several areas where Hezbollah has a heavy presence. The Israeli military declined to comment.

 

The number of casualties was rising too quickly to count but appeared to top 1,000, a Hezbollah official said. The group seemed overwhelmed trying to keep up, and hospitals across the country struggled to treat the injured. Downtown Beirut was filled with the sirens of ambulances wailing by.

 

Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad said he needed more time to determine the total number of casualties but assessed that the number of emergency room admissions in southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, was extremely high.

 

 

 

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[Sugar-Rush]

People still use pagers?

[Nova_23]

7 minutes ago, Sugar-Rush said:

People still use pagers?

I still have a pager for work. I'm in the medical field and it's common 

[Communion]

This will be considered a terrorist attack by whoever is behind it due to dozens of bystanders being harmed.

 

 

 

[Nova_23]

2 minutes ago, Communion said:

This will be considered a terrorist attack by whoever is behind it due to dozens of bystanders being harmed.

 

 

 

It should 100% be considered a terrorist attack given the proximity to civilians. But of course someone will come in here to try and justify it as if having pagers blow up in public is okay.  

[Nova_23]

I wonder if Lebanon has the same right to defend itself against its attackers in the same vein that Israel does 🧐 

[DuffStan]

1 000??? Oh this is terrible. My parents told me they heard sirens all over the city. People can't take this anymore! ENOUGH!!!!

[Communion]

 

 

 

 

 

[Domination]

This sounds like something out of a movie 

[oscarscheller]

Now why would a diplomat (the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon) carry a terror-organization pager

[IBeMe]

This is next level and horribly cruel because apparently even civilians had purchased these pagers in that shipment. The injured toll has risen to almost 3k ppl apparently…this is wild

[heckinglovato]

3 hours ago, oscarscheller said:

Now why would a diplomat (the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon) carry a terror-organization pager

Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organization by a very small minority of countries (like 18 or so), and Iran publicly supports and funds Hezbollah, which is a considered a terrorist organization by a very small minority of countries 

 

Hope this helps?

Edited September 17 by heckinglovato

[State of Grace.]

 

[stjosephprey4us]

I'm confused how this happened. Do people's pagers automatically have an exploding device in them? And it was hacked? Could this happen with iPhones, or am I stupid? 

[Gottasadae]

It's so scary, imagine that someone can remotely control your phone and blow it up whenever they want  

[Gui Blackout]

Oh my goodness, I hope they saved the warranty

[qurl]

when this starts happening to smart phones …….

[Luckitty]

the news trying to frame this as an attack on hezbollah when civilians also use pagers.. it's clearly a terrorist attack by israel but since the victims are arabs and not european colonizers no one will care 

[Luckitty]

this terrorist attack committed by the european colony that calls itself israel has also been reported in Syria not just Lebanon 

[Communion]

Western liberalism has moved so far to the right that legitimately the general reaction within the West is finding the imagery of citizens terrified of constant explosions all throughout the country as funny, even when it results in at least one dead child. 

 

 

 

 

[welham]

49 minutes ago, Gui Blackout said:

Oh my goodness, I hope they saved the warranty

Of course you support, joke, and laugh at an operation that hurt, and possibly killed, women and children and not just HA members. Then again, you do the genocide with the genocide in Gaza. 

 

Supporting acts of terrorism because it's done by the "West," that's liberals for ya.

[MattieB]

REMOVE ISREAL FROM THIS EARTH

[LIT]

1 hour ago, Gui Blackout said:

Oh my goodness, I hope they saved the warranty

What an absolutely disgusting and heinous thing to say about an attack that killed a 10-year-old child. You should be permabanned.

[State of Grace.]

10 minutes ago, LIT said:

What an absolutely disgusting and heinous thing to say about an attack that killed a 10-year-old child. You should be permabanned.

He wasn't permabanned when he was a racist troll thinking comparing Black Americans to monkeys was funny years ago, or when he claimed "armed Palestinians" were the ones who killed Shireen Abu Akleh, or when he constantly defended/supported the ongoing genocide. Certainly won't happen now.

[Virgos Groove]

2 hours ago, Gui Blackout said:

Oh my goodness, I hope they saved the warranty

How has your genocide-supporting ass not been perma-banned yet? Do you get a kick out of seeing brown people die or something?