Hezbollah blames Israel for pager explosions

Lebanon’s Hezbollah blamed Israel for a spree of pager explosions across Lebanon on Tuesday which so far has killed nine people and injured 2,800.

Israel will get ‘its fair punishment’, Hezbollah said in a statement released on Tuesday.“

At approximately 3:30 pm on Tuesday 09-17-2024, a number of messaging devices known as ‘pagers’ exploded, which are owned by a number of employees in various Hezbollah units and institutions,” an earlier statement from Hezbollah said.

Hezbollah said it was conducting a “wide-ranging security and scientific investigation” to uncover what caused the explosions.