This Wednesday afternoon, they reproduced numerous detonations of communication devices used by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. According to the official news agency, at least three people died and hundreds of people were injured by these new explosions.
The blasts were heard in the south of the country and in the southern suburbs of the capital, Beirut, a security source and a witness confirmed to Reuters. The source said it was unclear whether the equipment was a pager like those that exploded on Tuesday, leaving at least 12 dead and thousands injured.
At least one of the explosions heard during the day took place near a funeral organized by Hezbollah for those killed the day before, when thousands of pagers used by the group exploded across the country.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a projectile throwing against northern Israel, its first action since thousands of its members’ pagers exploded, killing at least 12 people in Lebanon.
“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance They bombed the artillery bunkers “of the Israeli enemy in Neve Ziv with a barrage of rockets,” according to a statement from Hezbollah, which promised an appropriate response against Israel, which has not yet happened.
The chain of detonations came after Israeli authorities once again toughened their rhetoric against Lebanon in the previous days and put on the table the potential launch of a open war against the Shiite movement.
The UN recalls that blowing up communications devices without knowing who owns them and what the environment was like is a fact that violates fundamental human rights standardsAccording to the High Commissioner in this matter, Volker Turk.
“Simultaneously attacking thousands of people, whether civilians or members of armed groups, without knowing who was in possession of the devices attacked, their location and their surroundings at the time of the attack, violates international human rights law and, to the extent applicable, international humanitarian law,” he explains, describing the detonations as “shocking.”
