The militant group Hezbollah said Tuesday that pagers belonging to its members had blown up across Lebanon, killing at least eight and injuring more than 2,700, according to the country’s Health Ministry. The blasts were widespread and appear to have happened simultaneously, with the Iran-backed group pinning the blame on Israel without providing any evidence for its claim. NBC News’ Raf Sanchez reports.
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Israel said the war would end, just return hostages. Hamas doesn’t want to. Golda Meir said the peace in the Middle East would start when the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews.
What nation puts weapons and fights from schools, mosques, hospitals etc
That just shows how deep their hatred is towards Jews.
Why does the Iranian ambassador have a Hezbollah pager?
The American university of Beirut and its adjoining hospitals were ordered two weeks ago to turn over their pagers for replacements.
Coincidence defaults to convenience through repetition.
Let um b bro
That’s a movie
It was a programable pager with a lithium power cell. Not your daddy's old pager. Any script kiddy given a pager might be able to cause the lithium battery to explode. It has been done before! Blaming Israel might work well for Hezbollah. Hezbollah itself might have caused the explosions to bring the Islamic world together for war against Israel. Let's try to avoid World War 3, please!
They been warned
This is wild .
These are rookie numbers we really need to get these numbers up
Wonder why supposed children have these Pagers! They're in Training!
They still use pagers over there?
FAFO
Only ?
Hezbollah are terrorists. Why are we not asking the right questions: whose pagers blew up and where?
I'm guessing there was some sort of intentional power surge or EM pulse sent through the comm network to the pagers. The batteries overheat and explode, causing severe injuries or death if the person was holding the pager close to their face or in their clothing! Very stealth and deadly!
blame america
Several kids, that no one knows who they are
This is a weird way to report a terrorist attack
What about innocent people in UK attacked the same way. All media is mute about that terrorist attack
Ha ha ha. NICE
Most American politicians have AIPAC pagers! 😂
It’s scary. What if by mistake they explode our balls …
How tf do you even do this ?
Millions of US citizens have to work like slaves to give $4 billion a year, officially. Unofficially it's over $30 billions/year Israel gets for free from the US taxpayers and every Israeli citizens get free medicare and social security cheque. While US citizens go hungry and homeless.
Why don't any US media ever talk about that? Ever.
To find out who rules over you, just find out who you are never allowed to criticise!