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Videos circulating on social media showed people shopping at a market in peace when they were suddenly hit by explosions and blood. The high-tech devices, recently supplied to pro-Iranian Shiite militants, exploded simultaneously, causing panic and devastation. The toll is around 3,000 wounded, including 200 in critical condition, and at least 16 confirmed victims, with seven dead in Damascus and nine in Lebanon. Among them, a 9-year-old girl, the daughter of a Hezbollah member, was killed while she was at home in the village of Saraain. The son of a lawmaker and several commanders of the Islamist group were also among the victims. The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was wounded. A Hezbollah source confirmed that leader Nasrallah was not hit, raising speculation that his pager may have been tampered with. Several hospitals in Lebanon have been overwhelmed by the emergency, with a crisis caused by the influx of wounded and a shortage of blood.
Shortly after the attack, which was not claimed by any group but was immediately attributed to Israel, the Israeli air force launched a series of strikes against terrorist targets in southern Lebanon, hitting the areas of Ayita al-Sha’ab and al-Khyam, up to 100 kilometers from the border. Experts believe that those who orchestrated the attack worked for a long time, inserting micro-explosive charges into pagers and developing the ability to detonate them simultaneously with a single command. The Lebanese government officially blamed Israel for the attack, considering it a serious violation of national sovereignty. Hossein Khalil, an adviser to Nasrallah, warned that “Israel should expect any reaction from Lebanon after these crimes.”
In Israel, the prime minister’s office quickly denied a spokesman’s claims online that Jerusalem was involved. Minutes later, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant met urgently in the Kyria pit, the Defense Ministry’s bunker in Tel Aviv, to discuss with security officials.
Israeli media described the meeting as “dramatic,” with the participation of intelligence agency heads and references to unusual movements of Shiite militias. The discussion focused on Hezbollah’s response to the synchronized explosions and the countermeasures by the Israeli military. Meanwhile, the Shin Bet, the internal security agency, announced that it had foiled an attack on a former high-ranking Israeli official, planned by Nasrallah’s militias using an explosive device remotely controlled from Lebanon. The discovery of the bomb has increased tensions, and it is not excluded that “the mystery of the simultaneous explosions,” as it has been called in Lebanon, could be a technologically advanced revenge compared to Hezbollah’s traditional methods.
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