The militia group Hezbollah promised revenge against Israel after accusing it of detonating pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3,000 others including Iran’s envoy to Beirut. A girl of eight was reported to be among the dead and at least 200 people were said to be critically injured.
Lebanon’s Information Minister Ziad Makary condemned the detonation of the pagers – handheld devices that Hezbollah and others in Lebanon use to send messages – as an “Israeli aggression”. Hezbollah said Israel would receive “its fair punishment”.
Lebanon’s public health minister described the attacks as “a major escalation at a time when everybody was hoping that things were moving to a kind of cessation of hostilities or some kind of ceasefire”. He said Israel was the “obvious culprit”.
Israel has declined to comment on the cause of the explosions.
Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Paul Adams and Gordon Corera.
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@MrMarinaKS
BBC “journalists” are devastated because they cannot blame Israel directly. But no fear BBC will find the way to glorify terrorists and blame Israel.
@Lumibear.
This thing is like something off Doctor Who, it just seems so unlikely, how on earth did they manage to pull this off!?
@KOLDBLU3ST33L
Terrorism works BOTH ways…
@kdrcolac4360
Pagers receive an audio message that's converted to text.
@marcelbruin9151
😂😂
@wekurtz72
Ahh the BBC and their muslim darlings. Boy the religion of peace is excellent at peaceful coexistence, aren't they?
@jeanclaude2794
wtf is a pager??
@nebuvarghese7699
🤣🤣
@biageorgem3159
Netanyahu want to keep looking for war,so he can stay out of prison!!!!
@Fire.4Effect
Pager usage is booming
@mdd8842
Fuck Hezbolah
@afdiag
Mamai
@warren-freshoffthevinemedia
Was Starmer injured?
@DavidWilsonsays
Some companies have taken planned obsolescence to a new level, it used to be in the early 2000's you could use a pager for years before it blew up.
@toddmadden9777
Guess those 72 virgins are safe…
@Mark-d5v
Russia
@Slanche1974
Lebanon was once a lovely Christian country until Iran poke their nose in
@vippsmillennial6336
Anyone of them got their ‘jewels’ blown off😢
@juanfervalencia
do they have warranty?
@khirdalan
BBC is going to cry now their friends got injured oh no
@youssefsaleh8480
It seems that Israel is trying to fail in Lebanon as well😂.
Let's review Israel's results in Gaza a year later of war:
Failed to eliminate Hamas
Failed to return hostages
Failed to weaken Hamas' power.
80$ Billion economic loss.
Hidden thousands of died and wounded Israelis.
@johnmclure981
F around and find out . This what happens when you poke the bear .
@Jual_Galon
Jika itu dilakukan oleh Israel, sungguh luar biasanya negara itu.
@JosephHoggang-bk4bk
Condolences BBC😭
@wekurtz72
Let's be clear – no one hears 1000 hezbolla injured and thinks that's a bad thing, right? Even in Britain? It's not like we mourned Bin Laden in the USA.
@alejandrojr.albarracin4432
Thats bad pager
@DogesMemeFactory
Makes you wonder what the US could do with our iPhones
@shimantodevnath1947
😂😂😂😂😂
@mikeslade127
Adolf Netanyahu is back to indiscriminate murder and injury including Children
@daronnemis3812
Dumb move. This will start a trend which is dangerous, yet the most immoral society on Earth only cares about the homes their grandparents stole.
@elizabethsabit3883
8 dead in explosion? How? did pager has a c4 component? Lies about 8 died for that explosion… Hezbollah usingbthat explosion to blame israel without proof ..
@amac701
Any BBC injuries?
@Nicko-n5l
How do they blame Israel for buying pagers probably made in china 😂