Hundreds of members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah were injured on Tuesday, September 17, when pagers used to communicate exploded across the country. Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon was also injured, according to Iranian television. A 10-year-old girl was killed, according to her family and a source close to Hezbollah. A source close to the Shiite movement accused Israel of being behind a ” piracy “.
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Hundreds of Hezbollah members were injured Tuesday when their pagers, a radio messaging system, exploded simultaneously in several of the pro-Iranian group’s strongholds in Lebanon, sources close to the Lebanese movement told AFP. Iran’s ambassador to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani, was also injured. He told us a few minutes ago that he was fine, that he was conscious and that there was no danger for him. ” added the television, without specifying whether the pager, a radio paging system, belonged to him.
A source close to the Hezbollah claimed that it was a “ Israeli hacking “This is the first incident of this kind since the start of the violence between the pro-Iranian party and Israel for almost a year.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the reports. Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad told AFP that ” Hundreds of people have been injured in different regions of the Lebanon ” in the explosion of beepers.
“ Hundreds of Hezbollah members were injured by the simultaneous explosion of their pagers ” in the southern suburbs of Beirut, in the south of Lebanon and in the eastern plain of the Bekaa, declared for his part a source close to the party. These regions are all strongholds of the Islamist formation.
An AFP correspondent in the Bekaa saw wounded people pouring into hospitals in the region. Another in the southern Lebanese city of Saida reported dozens of ambulances arriving at hospitals.
“ Unprecedented security incident »
Several witnesses saw ambulances carrying wounded people in the southern suburbs, where hospitals have appealed for blood donations. At the private American Hospital of Beirut (AUBMC), one of the largest in the capital, an AFP photographer saw dozens of ambulances carrying wounded people.
The Ministry of Health has asked “ to all health professionals to immediately report to their workplaces to assist in emergency care for the large number of injured »and launched a ” Call for coordination with the Lebanese Red Cross to organize blood donations “.
The National News Agency (ANI, an official agency) reported a ” unprecedented security incident that occurred in the southern suburbs of Beirut as well as in many Lebanese regions “, attributing it to “ the enemy » Israeli. She added that “ the pager system was hacked via high technology. »
Hezbollah had asked its members to stop using cell phones to avoid Israeli hacking. The powerful party has set up a pager system through which its members are called to return to their units.
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