The first investigations into the explosion of hundreds of walkie-talkies and beepers used by the Islamist group Hezbollah They revealed that the communication devices had been booby-trapped before entering Lebanon, according to a letter from that country’s mission to the UN.
“Preliminary investigation shows that The affected devices were tampered with professionally before arriving in Lebanon and Its explosion was caused by sending messages to the devices“, explained the text sent to the Security Council prior to a meeting on the matter.
The explosion of hundreds of beepers and walkie-talkies in it Lebanonattributed to Israel by the Islamist group, left a balance of 37 dead and more than 3,539 injured.
How Israel blew up beepers in Lebanon
A source close to Hezbollah He told AFP that “the pagers that exploded are part of a shipment recently imported” by the movement.
The American newspaper The New York Times reported that the beepers that exploded were ordered from the Taiwanese company Gold Apollo. The company reported that They were manufactured by the associated entity BAC Consulting KFT in Hungary.
For his part, a spokesman for the Hungarian government indicated that The company was “a commercial intermediary, with no manufacturing plants” in the country.
Japanese company Icom said it stopped producing the walkie-talkie model that allegedly exploded simultaneously in Lebanon on Wednesday 10 years ago.
Israel bombed southern Lebanon
Israel carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Thursday, claiming to have foiled an assassination plot orchestrated by Iran.
The attack came a day after Hezbollah launched a new round of rockets, raising fears of a wider conflict following the explosion of the communications devices.
In his first statement after the explosions, the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallahdescribed the attack as a “severe blow” that crossed “a red line.”
Source: Ambito
