Hezbollah carried out a rocket attack on Israel in retaliation for the barrage of explosions in Lebanon where twenty people were killed.
Israeli media reported that Hezbollah fired two rockets from southern Lebanon into the Upper Galilee region of northern Israel.
Five soldiers were injured
According to the Walla news agency, five wounded soldiers were taken by helicopter to a hospital in the Israeli city of Haifa.
Anxiety is peaking
After the new round of explosions in Lebanon and Hezbollah’s missile response to Israel, the atmosphere of concern about the outbreak of war between Lebanon and Israel is intensifying even more while today the speech of the leader of the Shiite movement close to Iran is being awaited with interest.
ICOM: The radios have been discontinued
Japanese manufacturer ICOM announced today that it has stopped making “for about ten years” the radios believed to have been detonated in Lebanon on Wednesday, killing 20 people and injuring 450 others, including members of the Hezbollah movement, which Israel accused of trapping them. with explosives.
The portable wireless IC-V82
“The IC-V82 was a portable wireless that was produced and exported, including to the Middle East, from 2004 to October 2014. It was discontinued about 10 years ago, and since then our company has discontinued it,” he told the ICOM’s announcement, reacting to information from the New York Times and Israeli media, which referred to the specific model.
“The production of the batteries required to operate the main unit was discontinued and the holographic seal that allows to distinguish genuine products from counterfeits was not affixed, so it is not possible to confirm whether the product was supplied by our company,” always according to the Japanese manufacturer.
Company details
He added that its products intended for foreign markets are available exclusively through distributors with whom it has signed agreements.
“All our wireless are produced by our subsidiary (…) Wakayama ICOM Inc., in Wayakama Prefecture, based on a strict management system”, which has international certification and guarantees that “no parts other than those approved by our company are used”, the announcement continues. After all, “all wireless are manufactured in the same factory”, and nowhere “overseas”.
Buzzers before walkie-talkies
Hezbollah’s deadly walkie-talkie explosions occurred the day after these buzzers, used mainly by members of the Shiite movement, were being held at funerals for four of the 12 victims in a southern Lebanese suburb.
Hezbollah attributed the two series of blasts to Israel, whose government has made absolutely no public comment. The US has warned both sides against “escalation of any nature” as concerns grow that the war will spread to Lebanon.
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