Fresh explosions by members of Hezbollah were reported on Wednesday (18/09/2024) in the southern suburbs of Beirut with many sources pointing to the Mossad behind the attack.
As reported, at least fourteen are dead and hundreds are injured, many of whom have wounds to the arms and stomach.
The new incident comes a day after thousands of Hezbollah members were injured after the buzzers they used to communicate exploded.
According to the Reuters agency, citing eyewitnesses and security sources, communication devices, walkie talkies (wireless transceivers), as the international media write, used by Hezbollah have exploded in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The explosions, of limited power according to the international media, occurred in different parts of the suburbs of Beirut.
Wireless transceivers have been detonated in Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold, a source told AFP news agency. Hezbollah reportedly bought the devices in question five months ago, around the same time as the buzzers that exploded yesterday.
There is now a wave of walkie talkie explosions in Lebanon. The operation continues pic.twitter.com/9HmKOpzE3K
— Nacho Montes de Oca (@nachomdeo) September 18, 2024
One of the two explosions occurred during a funeral in the Dahiyeh district, a southern suburb of Beirut, as people bid farewell to four of the people killed in Tuesday’s blasts.
Another round of blasts in different areas around south Lebanon and Beirut southern suburb. Devices in cars, motorcycles, and people’s hand are exploding. pic.twitter.com/0Dn4QnWTag
— Ali Hashem Ali Hashem (@alihashem_tv) September 18, 2024
One of the explosions took place at a funeral
Breaking News 🚨
Today’s explosions of communication devices across #Lebanon seem to have primarily affected walkie-talkies that were purchased five months ago.#LebanonExplosion pic.twitter.com/0XTklLjxPO
— Ajeet Yadav (@ajeetkumarAT) September 18, 2024
Among those attending the funeral are children, women and men of all ages. At the time of the explosion, the funeral was about to begin.
A Hezbollah source confirmed that the walkie talkies used by this Lebanese group were targeted. Lebanon’s state-run news agency says “old bombs” exploded inside houses in the southern suburbs of Beirut and in southern Lebanon.
Some of the wounded were taken to hospitals in the capital and Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley. According to another source cited by the Lebanese news agency, a siren exploded inside a car near a cemetery in the southern Bekaa.
Earlier, Hezbollah said it had launched a rocket attack against an Israeli position following the blasts in Lebanon yesterday.
It is recalled that since October there have been repeated exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, with the former firing more than 8,000 rockets into northern Israel and the IDF responding with airstrikes.
Wednesday’s blasts in Beirut come 24 hours after bomb blasts by the group in Lebanon left at least 12 dead and nearly 3,000 injured. The Lebanese Hezbollah movement earlier assured that Israel “will receive just punishment” after “this criminal attack”.
UN: Those responsible for the bomb attack “must be held accountable”
Those responsible for a deadly bombing attack on Hezbollah members in Lebanon “must be held accountable,” United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said today.
“The simultaneous targeting of thousands of people, whether civilians or members of armed organizations, without knowing who possessed the targeted devices, where they were and in what environment they were at the time of the attack, constitutes a violation of of international Human Rights law and, to the extent that it is applicable, of international humanitarian law,” Turk underlined in a press release.
The UN official called for an “independent, serious and transparent investigation” into the events to find the masterminds and perpetrators.
#Lebanon #fourteen #dead #bomb #blasts #Hundreds #injured
