At least nine people were killed and around 2,800 wounded in Lebanon in an attack targeting the pagers of Hezbollah members, the Lebanese health minister said. Follow our live updates.
CNN has learned the attack was a joint operation between Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, and the Israeli military. Israel has refused to comment publicly on the explosions.Hezbollah bought the pagers that exploded in recent months, according to a Lebanese security source. Those devices detonated simultaneously after receiving a message.
Hsu Ching-kuang, head of Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, speaks to the media outside the company's office in New Taipei City on September 18.Taiwan has no record of Gold Apollo pagers being shipped to Lebanon or the Middle East, a senior Taiwanese security official told CNN on Wednesday, following the apparent use of the firm’s devices in a
“We were surprised that there were a lot of people… there was blood on the roads and people were being transported in ambulances to the hospital. But we did not know what was happening,” he said. Gold Apollo founder and chairperson Hsu Ching-kuang told reporters on Wednesday that his firm had signed a contract with a European distributor to use the Gold Apollo brand.
CNN cannot geolocate the images but has verified that they were published on Tuesday, the same day as the explosions. At least one pager shown in the images is the Gold Apollo AR924 model.Most of the pagers were the company’s AP924 model but three other Gold Apollo models were included in the shipment, the Times reported.
Unlike other non-state actors in the Middle East, Hezbollah units are believed to communicate through an internal communications network. In its bid to escape Israel’s radar, its back-to-basics approach appears to have literally backfired in a way that they would have least expected.to Hezbollah? This is the key question for the next 48 hours in the Middle East, as the Lebanese militant group comes to terms withwill likely scar the Party, as they are often known, who pride themselves on secrecy, and the technological omerta their members adhere to.
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