by Admin
Sep 19, 2024
Twenty people have been confirmed dead and hundreds injured after a series of handheld radios popularly known as walkie-talkies exploded throughout Southern Lebanon on Wednesday.
Prodesq gathered that the exploded handheld radios belonged to Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon.
This attack happened a day after thousands of pagers exploded throughout Lebanon and some parts of Syria which left twelve people dead and 2800 people injured and hospitalized.
The attack is considered the country’s deadliest single-day attack since cross-border fighting erupted between the militants and Israel nearly a year ago.
Lebanon’s health ministry disclosed that 20 people were killed and more than 450 were seriously wounded on Wednesday in Beirut’s suburbs and the Bekaa Valley.
The Israeli Defense Ministry has yet to comment on these waves of attacks that started on Tuesday morning and have left 32 people dead including two children.
However, this series of attacks coincided at the same time when Yoav Gallant, the Israeli Defense Minister said “The ‘center of gravity’ is moving north, meaning that we are allocating forces, resources, and energy for the northern arena,” and he also indicated that a “new wave” of attacks has been put in place against Hezbollah.
Hezbollah has however vowed to retaliate against Israel Tuesday’s attack which left prominent Hezbollah members dead, including Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon and children of two different Hezbollah members of parliament.
The International community has widely condemned the attack, Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, has issued a statement that the Secretary-General is deeply concerned and alarmed at the wave of the attacks.
He added that the UN chief urged all concerned actors to exercise maximum restraint to avert any further escalation.
He further added Mr Antonio urged the parties to recommit to the full implementation of Security Council resolution 1701 (2006) and immediately return to a cessation of hostilities to restore stability.
Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Wednesday, said that the series of explosion attacks in Lebanon was “shocking, with an unacceptable impact on civilians.”