Detonation of thousands of devices, killing at least nine, could provoke war between Israel and the Lebanese group
An ambulance arrives at American University of Beirut Medical Center on 17 September. About 3,000 people were injured by exploding pagers in Lebanon.An ambulance arrives at American University of Beirut Medical Center on 17 September. About 3,000 people were injured by exploding pagers in Lebanon., blowing up thousands of pagers used by members of the Lebanese group, is almost certainly a Mossad operation.
“It enhances the chance of an escalation of the border crisis into a war,” Melman warned, and argued it was “more of a sign of panic” because, while he said it showed an extraordinary ability to strike at the heart of Hezbollah, it was neither very targeted, nor would it would change the wider strategic picture. “I don’t see any advance in it,” he concluded.
A sabotaged mobile phone was used as long ago as January 1996 to blow up Yahya Ayyash, then Hamas’s chief bomb maker, in Gaza City. Ayyash, known as “The Engineer”, was considered responsible for introducing the strategy of carrying out suicide attacks on Israeli passenger buses – but his killing prompted a fresh wave of bus bombings and did little to calm the crisis at the time.
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