{"id":23623,"date":"2024-09-18T04:56:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T04:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=23623"},"modified":"2024-09-18T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T04:58:10","slug":"israel-blamed-for-deadly-pager-explosions-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/09\/israel-blamed-for-deadly-pager-explosions-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel blamed for deadly pager explosions in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; At least 9 people, including a child, have been killed after handheld pagers used by members of the armed group Hezbollah to communicate exploded across Lebanon, the country\u2019s health minister says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Iran\u2019s ambassador to Lebanon was among 2,800 other people who were wounded by the simultaneous blasts in Beirut and several other regions.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday\u2019s detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The details shed light on an unprecedented Hezbollah security breach that saw thousands of pagers detonate across Lebanon, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3,000 others, including the group\u2019s fighters and Iran\u2019s envoy to Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>Iran-backed Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel, whose military declined to comment on the blasts.<\/p>\n<p>The plot appears to have been many months in the making, several sources told Reuters.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; At least 9 people, including a child, have been killed after handheld pagers used by members of the armed group Hezbollah to communicate exploded across Lebanon, the country\u2019s health minister says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,978,982,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-security","category-international","category-headline"],"views":35,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23632,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23623\/revisions\/23632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}