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Hezbollah handed out pagers hours before blasts — even after checks

One security source says it's very hard to detect explosives with devices.

Published 20 Sep, 2024 05:34pm

Nasrallah vows revenge amid Israeli bombing in Lebanon

Panicked citizens toss power banks, mobile phones following carnage of pager blasts.

Updated 20 Sep, 2024 09:22am

How Israel sketched out its ‘extensive plan’ of device blasts across Lebanon

While Hezbollah aimed to secure itself by switching to pagers, little did it know that Israeli machinations, according to officers and experts, could make even the low-tech devices a deadly tool.

Updated 19 Sep, 2024 07:32pm

Israeli planes bomb southern Lebanon day after radio blasts

Lebanese PM calls on UN Security Council to take a firm stand to stop Israel’s “aggression” and “technological war” against his country.

Updated 19 Sep, 2024 06:18pm

Pakistan says terror attacks in Lebanon ‘manifestation of Israeli adventurism’

"Use of cyber and electronic means to commit terrorism in foreign countries is reprehensible," says FO spokesperson.

Updated 19 Sep, 2024 02:04pm

Lebanon’s Hezbollah reeling after 37 killed in two days of device blasts

Twenty-five dead in Wednesday's walkie-talkie explosions, just a day after pager blasts killed a dozen, injured thousands.

Updated 19 Sep, 2024 07:27pm

Pager attack puts spotlight on Israeli cyber agency

One Western security source says that a military unit that is not part of the spy agency involved in the development stage of the operation.

Updated 19 Sep, 2024 11:21am

Fears of all-out war with Israel as new Lebanon device blasts kill 20, wound 450

A second wave of device explosions has killed 20 people and wounded more than 450 others in Hezbollah strongholds in...

Updated 01 Oct, 2024 02:20pm

Pager explosions

This dangerous brinkmanship is likely to drag the region — and the global economy — into a vortex of violence and instability.

Updated 19 Sep, 2024 12:12pm

Israel targets Lebanon with unprecedented ‘tech warfare’

Children among at least 26 dead, more than 3,000 hurt after walkie-talkies, pagers explode over two days across the country.

Updated 19 Sep, 2024 09:39am

Iranian president says Lebanon blasts should shame Israel’s allies

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says Western backers of Israel should feel “shame” after paging devices...

Published 18 Sep, 2024 07:48pm

READ: What caused pagers across Lebanon to explode?

Hezbollah has said it was carrying out a “security and scientific investigation” into the causes of the pager blasts...

Published 18 Sep, 2024 03:10pm

Hezbollah pager blasts: what we know about the deadly attack

Hezbollah already had concerns about the security of its communications after losing several key commanders to Israeli strikes in recent months.

Published 18 Sep, 2024 02:35pm

14 killed, 450 wounded as Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon in new explosions

At least one of the blasts took place near a funeral organised by Hezbollah for those killed the previous day; 12 dead in pager blasts a day earlier.

Updated 18 Sep, 2024 11:51pm

8 dead, 2,750 wounded in Lebanon pager explosions: minister

Hezbollah fighters, medics and Iran’s envoy to Beirut also wounded; Hezbollah official terms incident “biggest security breach” in nearly a year of conflict with Israel.

Updated 18 Sep, 2024 12:23am