Hezbollah Exploding Pagers: What We Know So Far

Published on September 18, 2024

Nine people were killed, including an eight-year-old girl, and thousands were injured when pagers being used by the Hezbollah organization simultaneously exploded in Lebanon on Tuesday, according to Lebanese authorities. Lebanon’s public health minister, Dr. Firass Abiad, said the pagers exploded in southern Beirut and several other parts of the country and thousands of people were taken to hospital. What Happened On Tuesday? It appears that thousands of pagers exploded, apparently over an hour, from 3:30 p.m. local time until 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon. One video on social media showed one of the pagers exploding in a man’s bag as he shopped at a fruit market....

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