Here's what we know so far.
The Lebanese health ministry says 12 people, including two children, are dead and thousands injured after wireless devices – pagers – exploded across the country on Tuesday.Here’s what we know so far.The news agency says it’s been told that Israeli spies planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers which Hezbollah members were using to communicate.
If that is true, it implies that Israeli operatives somehow gained access to the devices while they were being manufactured or distributed to Hezbollah members.According to Reuters’ Lebanese source, the devices were “Gold Apollo” branded – suggesting they were made by a company in Taiwan.Gold Apollo’s boss, Hsu Ching Kuang, described the situation as “very embarrassing” and insisted “there was nothing in those devices that we had manufactured or exported to ”.
According to Reuters’ Lebanese source, the pagers in yesterday’s incident had only been brought into the country earlier this year.Hezbollah is an Iran-backed military and political group based in Lebanon, which borders Israel.The organisation has been in conflict with Israel on-and-off since its creation in the 1980s, with all-out war breaking out several times – most notably in 2006, when thousands of people were killed or wounded.
Fears of escalation were further heightened on Monday when Israel announced that it had “updated the objectives of the war to include returning the residents of the north securely to their homes”.said that Hezbollah continuing to “tie itself” to Hamas meant that “the only way left to ensure the return of Israel’s northern communities to their homes will be via military action”.
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