The new incident comes a day after thousands of Hezbollah members were injured after the buzzers they used to communicate exploded on Tuesday. According to Reuters, citing eyewitnesses and security sources, communication devices 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.
Yesterday, the coordinated operation attributed to Israel targeting Hezbollah operative bombers resulted in 12 deaths and around 3000 wounded, 300 of them in serious condition. Bombers went off simultaneously across Lebanon on Tuesday, hours after Israel said it was broadening the goals of its war in Gaza to include its fight against Hamas ally Hezbollah. Lebanon’s foreign ministry called the blasts an “Israeli cyber attack,” but did not elaborate on how it had reached that conclusion. Lebanon’s information minister said the attack was an attack on Lebanon’s sovereignty.
On Wednesday, Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abyad said 12 people had been killed and another 2,750 to 2,800 wounded, revising the toll. Among the dead were a girl and a boy as well as four health workers from private hospitals in Beirut’s southern suburbs that had sirens. Abiad said “the attack was very big” with about 2,800 wounded entering Lebanese hospitals “within half an hour”.
The bombers were set off in the main strongholds of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group in southern Beirut and in eastern and southern Lebanon. Some cases have occurred in the eastern Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. About 750 wounded were identified in the south, about 150 in the Bekaa Valley and about 1,850 in Beirut and its southern suburbs.
The explosions started around 3:30 p.m. (1230 GMT) in the southern suburbs of Beirut. They lasted about an hour, with Reuters witnesses saying they could still hear explosions at 4:30 p.m. According to security sources and video reviewed, some of the explosions occurred after buzzers were alerted, prompting their owners to put their hands on them or bring them up to their faces to check the screens.
“Just under 300 patients are in critical condition,” with some suffering from facial injuries and bleeding on the brain, Lebanon’s health minister said. “The injured who arrived at the emergency room were not all young men. We saw children and old people,” he added.
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