Pager war hits Hezballah in Middle East

 USA Today:

At least eight people were killed and more than 2,700 injured, many of them Hezbollah fighters, when the handheld pagers they use to communicate exploded, Lebanon's health minister said Tuesday.

Firass Abiad said the blasts took place in several suburbs of Beirut, according to Lebanon's National News Agency. He said many of the victims had injuries to their faces, hands and stomachs.

He said one of those killed was an 8-year-old girl.

The direct cause of the explosions, which appeared to take place simultaneously at 3:30 p.m., was not immediately clear, though Hezbollah quickly blamed Israel for what it called its "sinful aggression."

The Shia militant movement said Israel would get "its fair punishment."

A Hezbollah official told the Reuters news agency that the detonation of the pagers was the "biggest security breach" the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of war with Israel.

Mojtaba Amani, Iran's ambassador in Lebanon, was also injured in the incident, though not seriously, according to Iran's semi-official Mehr News Agency. Hezbollah is materially and financially backed by Iran.

There was no immediate comment from Israel's military.

Still, the incident comes just hours after Israel's security Cabinet released a statement vowing to return tens of thousands of displaced residents of Israel's northern areas to their homes. Hezbollah, long Israel's enemy, has repeatedly fired missiles at Israeli territory since Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks, causing many residents to flee south.
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Israel has for months warned that it could launch a military operation to drive Hezbollah away from its border.

Orna Mizrachi, a former Israeli national security official, said in a call with reporters that the pager attack could signal that Israel is about to change its war strategy, in which it has been fighting Hamas in Gaza for almost a year, and move its main front to the north to fight Hezbollah.
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While I am familiar with pagers, I have never seen the need to use them.   I have been using cell phones for decades.  What these attacks on Hezballah show are that Israel is capable of finding ways to attack those bent on destroying Israel.  Both Hamas and Hezballah have been attacking Israel in what they deem as a holy war against those who reject Islam.  The pager attacks show that making war against Israel has its consequences.

See also:

We Live in the Golden Age of Exploding Pagers

And:

 The Hezbollah pager explosions are a textbook Israeli attack

More than 3,000 people were injured in the hundreds of blasts, with at least nine killed

And:

 Israeli Intelligence Is Amazing

And:

 Thousands of Hezbollah Terrorists Blown Up in Wild Sneak Attack

And:

 Biden Admin Pushes Israel to Give Land to Hezbollah

Making deals with Islamic terrorists doesn't work

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