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HEZBOLLAH MEMBERS WOUNDED IN LEBANON WHEN PAGERS EXPLODE

By Laila Bassam
September 17, 20244:33 PM GMT+2Updated 3 min ago
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Item 1 of 2 People gather outside a hospital, as hundreds of members of the
Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, including fighters and medics, were seriously
wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, according
to a security source, in Beirut, Lebanon September 17, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed
Azakir
[1/2]People gather outside a hospital, as hundreds of members of the Lebanese
armed group Hezbollah, including fighters and medics, were seriously wounded on
Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, according to a
security source, in Beirut, Lebanon September 17, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed...
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BEIRUT, Sept 17 (Reuters) - More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters
and medics, were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate
exploded across Lebanon, security sources told Reuters.
A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation of
the pagers was the "biggest security breach" the group had been subjected to in
nearly a year of war with Israel.
Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah have been engaged in cross-border warfare
since the Gaza war erupted last October, the worst such escalation in years.
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The Israeli military declined to comment on Reuters enquiries about the
detonations.
Iran's Mehr news agency said the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani,
was injured by one of the blasts. Reuters could not immediately confirm the
report.
A Reuters journalist saw ambulances rushing through the southern suburbs of the
capital Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, amid widespread panic. A security source
said that devices were also exploding in the south of Lebanon.
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At Mt. Lebanon hospital, a Reuters reporter saw motorcycles rushing to the
emergency room, where people with their hands bloodied were screaming in pain.
The head of the Nabatieh public hospital in the south of the country, Hassan
Wazni, told Reuters that around 40 wounded people were being treated at his
facility. The wounds included injuries to the face, eyes and limbs.
The wave of explosions lasted around an hour after the initial detonations,
which took place about 3:45 p.m. local time (1345 GMT). It was not immediately
clear how the devices were detonated.

Lebanese internal security forces said a number of wireless communication
devices were detonated across Lebanon, especially in Beirut's southern suburbs,
leading to injuries.
Groups of people huddled at the entrance of buildings to check on people they
knew who may have been wounded, the Reuters journalist said.
Regional broadcasters carrying CCTV footage which showed what appeared to be a
small handheld device placed next to a grocery store cashier where an individual
was paying spontaneously exploding. In other footage, an explosion appeared to
knock out someone standing at a fruit stand at a market area.

Lebanon’s crisis operations center, which is run by the health ministry, asked
all medical workers to head to their respective hospitals to help cope with the
massive numbers of wounded coming into for urgent care. It said health care
workers should not use pagers.
The Lebanese Red Cross said more than 50 ambulances and 300 emergency medical
staff were dispatched to assist in the evacuation of victims.

Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel immediately after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas
gunmen on Israel. Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire constantly ever
since, while avoiding a major escalation as war rages in Gaza to the south.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced from towns and villages on both
sides of the border by the hostilities.

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Reporting by Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily; Writing by Nadine Awadalla and
Clauda Tanios; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Angus MacSwan

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