The death toll from the explosions of Hezbollah’s transmission devices, which took place on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 September, has now risen to 37 dead and 3,539 injured, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad announced on Thursday. The minister specified that 12 people were killed in the first wave of pager explosions and 25 in the second wave of walkie-talkie explosions. A previous death toll was 20. Follow our live feed.
The Israeli army claims to have struck seven Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon. The Israeli army announced that it had carried out these airstrikes on six “infrastructure sites” Hezbollah and an arms depot in southern Lebanon. The targeted sites are located “in the regions of Chihine, Tayibe, Blida, Meiss El Jabal, Aitaroun and Kfarkela in southern Lebanon”and the Hezbollah weapons warehouse “in the Khiam region in southern Lebanon”according to an army statement.
The leader of the Lebanese Islamist movement will speak. An expected speech. The head of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, is due to speak on Thursday at 4 p.m. (Paris time), regarding the series of explosions that have taken place since Tuesday in the country. A first pager attack, which occurred on Tuesday, caused the death of at least 12 people and injured 2,800. For the moment, Israel has not made any comment, while the Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said the first attack could be a harbinger of a wider war in the Middle East.
Devices no longer manufactured for “about ten years”. The Japanese manufacturer Icom said on Thursday, after investigation, that he had stopped producing “about ten years ago” walkie-talkies suspected of exploding. “The IC-V82 is a portable radio that was produced and exported, including to the Middle East, from 2004 to October 2014 (…) Since then, it has not been shipped by our company”the company commented.
Concerns of the international community. The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, condemned these attacks on Wednesday. “attacks”saying to himself “extremely concerned” by the situation. The UN deplored a ““extremely worrying escalation” and Washington has warned against any “escalation”The UN Security Council will meet urgently on Friday to discuss the series of explosions.
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