Death toll from walkie-talkie blast in Lebanon rises to 25

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/explosives-planted-inside-pagers-before-they-reached-hezbollah-3282322

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  1. The death toll from the walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon on Wednesday has risen to 25, with at least 450 injured, the country’s health minister has said.

    Thousands of pagers exploded in Lebanon on Tuesday before hundreds of walkie-talkies did the same on Wednesday. The pager explosions killed 12 and injured more than 2,000, according to figures from Lebanon.

    Multiple sources have claimed that Israel’s Mossad spy agency was targeting Hezbollah members. Israel has not commented on the blasts but a division of the military has relocated north from Gaza to the Lebanon border.

    Israeli jets and artillery hit multiple targets in southern Lebanon overnight, Israel’s military said on Thursday, amid spiralling tensions following the mass attack on Hezbollah communications devices this week.

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  2. Well, if Hezbollah is firing rockets at Israel I feel that makes them perfectly valid targets. Perhaps if they didn’t want to explode they wouldn’t try to do the same to random Israeli citizens.

  3. They must be having a crisis trying to talk with each other right now. Difficult to tell how badly their comms are compromised.

  4. Israel has made it much easier to identify thousands of Hezbollah operatives. Anyone who survives this, who walks with a serious limp from an injury to the hip, or has missing hands or fingers, or both, will be suspect.