This video seize reveals a walkie-talkie that was exploded inside a home, in Baalbek, east Lebanon, on September 18, 2024.
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A preliminary investigation by Lebanese authorities into the communications devices that blew up in Lebanon this week discovered that they have been implanted with explosives earlier than arriving within the nation, in accordance with a letter despatched to the U.N. Safety Council by Lebanon’s mission to the United Nations.

The authorities additionally decided the gadgets, which included pagers and hand-held radios, have been detonated by sending digital messages to the gadgets, says the letter, seen by Reuters on Thursday (September 19, 2024). Israel was liable for the planning and execution of the assaults, Lebanon’s U.N. mission stated.

The 15-member Safety Council is because of meet on Friday over the blasts.

The attacks on Hezbollah’s communications equipment on Tuesday and Wednesday killed 37 folks and wounded round 3,000, overwhelming Lebanese hospitals and wreaking bloody havoc on the militant group.

Israel has circuitously commented on the assaults, which safety sources say have been in all probability carried out by its Mossad spy company, which has a protracted historical past of finishing up refined assaults on international soil.