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Pager Explosions Reveal the Truth: Israel is Guilty, Hezbollah is Innocent.

The outrageous attack by Israel and the subsequent cheering in both Israel and the West shows us once more who the real “bad guys” are in the Middle East.

Joe Brunoli
15 min readSep 24, 2024

On Tuesday, September 17, 2024, thousands of mobile pagers exploded across Lebanon, injuring 3000 people and killing 12, including 2 children. The next day, a similar attack targeted walkie-talkies, killing 20 and injuring about 450.

The injuries inflicted on the unsuspecting pager users and the people in their vicinity were horrendous: people were rushed to the hospital having lost hands, arms, eyes and genitals.

A man loses his fingers after widespread pager detonations across Lebanon. [Source: TRT World | Photo: Reuters]

A non-targeted, mass casualty attack

Many in the West have claimed that the attack was “targeted” at Hezbollah operatives, who were using the pagers to prevent their cell phones being tracked and/or hacked by Israeli intelligence.

But the broad spectrum of victim profiles indicates that the targeting was minimal.

This video grab shows a walkie-talkie that was exploded inside a house, in Baalbek, east Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. [Source: Yahoo News | Photo: AP]

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Joe Brunoli
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