The attack against Hezbollah in Lebanon continued with a second phase. On Wednesday, 14 more died and about 500 were wounded in explosions similar to those that killed 12 people and injured 3,000 others on Tuesday. This time it wasn’t pagers, but walkie talkies issued to military and non-military members of Hezbollah.
On Tuesday, in various areas of Lebanon with a high density of Shiites and in Syria, thousands of pagers had exploded at the same time. The toll was about 3,000 injured and 14 dead. The pagers, which most likely had explosives inserted which were detonated through specific radio frequencies, were from the Taiwanese brand Gold Apollo, but, according to the parent company, were produced by the Budapest-based BacConsuting. In an official statement, Viktor Orban claimed the pagers had never been in Hungary. Investigations are being pursued to find out the route these devices took, as they were almost certainly tampered with at a later point.
On Wednesday, just like on Tuesday, Beirut was once again crowded with ambulances, army trucks, police, firefighters and helicopters. The hospital in Marjayouneh, South Lebanon, made a public appeal for donations of the rarer O RH negative and AB positive blood types. The entire country and Lebanese hospitals were, and continue to be, on high alert. The blasts mostly caused damage to the eyes, hands, abdomen and genitals.
Between 15 and 20 explosions were recorded on Wednesday in the southern suburbs of Beirut – Hezbollah's enclave in the capital – resulting in a........