Residents in Lebanon awoke to deserted streets as convoys race people with rare blood types to hospitals to donate in the aftermath of the attack
A medical worker at the American University of Beirut Medical Center as people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded and killed when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon Blood was everywhere – on the streets, in cafes and supermarkets, as ambulances rushed to various scenes, sirens blaring.
So far, 10-year-old Fatima Jaafar is the youngest victim of the attack with two other children reported killed. Fatima was killed in her family’s home in the town of Sar’een in the Beqaa region of eastern Lebanon, with a phone placed beside her., only the identities of Fatima and Mohammad Mahdi Ammar, the son of Ali Ammar, an MP for Hezbollah’s ” Resistance” bloc, have been confirmed so far. The number injured remained at 2,750, Lebanon’s health ministry said on Wednesday.
Former General Security Chief and intelligence expert General Abbas Ibrahim said he believes Israel is “eager but incapable of launching a full-scale war on Lebanon.” However, the situation has since changed. Hezbollah retaliated in mid-August, targeting an Israeli intelligence base near Tel Aviv. Tuesday’s events in Lebanon amount to a wide-spread attack targeting Hezbollah operatives.
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