Tag: Near and Middle East
Ibrahim Aqil, Hezbollah Commander Eliminated by IDF – L’Express
The airstrike comes a few days after the spectacular attack that targeted Hezbollah’s transmission devices. This Friday, September 20, an Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut left at…
The origin of pagers still unknown – L’Express
In a speech Thursday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed Israel “a terrible punishment” after hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies used by the Islamist movement exploded across Lebanon Tuesday and Wednesday…
Without pagers or walkie-talkies, Hezbollah’s communication is impossible – L’Express
There are the dead and the wounded, of course. There is the signal sent. But in the explosion of Hezbollah’s pagers, there is above all the massive destruction of the…
An Israeli front company behind the booby-trapped pagers sold to Hezbollah? – L’Express
At least 37 dead and three thousand two hundred injured: Lebanon is still in shock on September 19, after the multiple explosions, on Tuesday and Wednesday, of radio communication devices…
Walkie-talkie attack leaves 20 dead, new report says – L’Express
The new wave of explosions of Hezbollah transmission devices on Wednesday, September 18, left 20 dead and more than 450 injured across Lebanon. This series of attacks, attributed to the…
“Israel really wants to end the Hezbollah threat” – L’Express
A specialist in the Arab-Muslim world and the various Islamist groups in the region, Bernard Haykel is a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University in…
The gray areas surrounding the manufacture of Hezbollah beepers – L’Express
Many questions surrounding the simultaneous explosions of hundreds of beepers used by Hezbollah remain unanswered. On Wednesday, September 18, the Taiwanese group Gold Apollo, whose brand name appears on the…
Pagers, telephones, walkie-talkies… Hezbollah’s security system foiled – L’Express
Wednesday, September 18, 4:30 p.m. Walkie-talkies explode in the southern suburbs of Beirut. It feels like reliving the nightmare of the day before. It was around 3:30 p.m. in Lebanon…
A series of explosions of communications equipment plunges the country back into chaos – L’Express
Phase two of a vast destabilization operation? At least three people were killed on Wednesday, September 18, and more than a hundred injured in a new wave of explosions of…
Beyond the humiliation, Hezbollah checkmate? – L’Express
Chaos everywhere. On the streets of Beirut on Tuesday, September 17, there were hundreds of injured people, with torn off hands or bleeding abdomens. There were also deaths. The atmosphere…