Rumble
The Pager War
9/18/24 – By Tim Buck
Fotet.org
The dust is still settling, but Monday ended up being a substantial inflection point toward a regional war in the Middle East.
Israel’s War Cabinet apparently authorized a full-scale war with Hezbollah with the end goal being the return of the roughly 130,000 displaced Israelis to the north.
Then yesterday, in what is probably the deadliest cyber attack in world history, some 4,000 high-ranking Hezbollah soldiers and officers were injured, possibly dozens killed, when their pagers exploded. They were laced with several grams of explosive according to several reports; other reports indicated their batteries were simultaneously triggered to explode.
The terror group Hezbollah blames Israel, vows revenge; hospitals in Lebanon are overwhelmed by wounded, including Iranian envoy, after unprecedented, coordinated attack amid surging war fears of a soon coming Israeli invasion into Lebanon to push Hezbollah back up north to the Litani River.
Many were killed and thousands were injured when pagers held by Hezbollah members across Lebanon exploded on Tuesday afternoon, in a widescale, coordinated attack attributed to Israel.
The unprecedented wave of explosions, which also reportedly killed and injured several people in Syria, sparked chaos in a region already on high alert for the outbreak of full-scale hostilities.
It came hours after Israel designated the halting of Hezbollah’s attacks one of its main war goals and announced that it had foiled an assassination attempt by the Iranian proxy group against a former senior official.
Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad said in an evening press conference that nine people were killed and 4000 more were injured in the blasts, including some 200 people in critical condition.
Ambulances carrying Hezbollah members and others with bloodied limbs and faces streamed to hospitals for hours after the blasts, overwhelming health services.
