Second Wave Of Explosions Rock Lebanon – What You Need To Know

ANALYSIS – Well done! – While the Iran-backed, Lebanon-based terror group was still reeling from Tuesday's sophisticated massive remote attack on hundreds of its members' pagers, Hezbollah got hit again.

This time its members' handheld radios were targeted and remote detonated almost at the same time.

Hezbollah's Al Manar TV reported explosions in multiple areas of Lebanon, which it said were caused by detonating walkie-talkies.

As the Epoch Times reported: “At least one of the blasts occurred near a funeral organized by the Iran-backed Hezbollah for those killed the previous day, when thousands of pagers used by the group exploded across the country, wounding many members of the terrorist group.”

CNN reported:

The Lebanese Civil Defense said it was also working to extinguish fires in 60 homes and shops that started after the walkie-talkies exploded, including one in a lithium battery store.

Fifteen cars and dozens of motorcycles also caught fire as well as two fingerprint devices in the Nabatieh Governorate.

The death toll from Wednesday's walkie-talkie explosions has risen to nine, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. More than 300 people have been injured, almost all Hezbollah operatives.

The thousands of personal walkie-talkie radios hit in Wednesday's operation, sources told Axios, were all ordered from the terror group five months ago, around the same time as the detonating pagers.

This would signal the second bold attack on Hezbollah's communications and personnel in just two days. And is a response to Hezbollah leaders issuing pagers to its terrorist minions after warning that cell phones could be easily hacked.

It also appears to show that Israel is beginning to shift its military focus from Gaza to southern Lebanon and will be using shadowy covert tactics as much as direct combat forces to damage Hezbollah.

While Israel has not taken responsibility for the either attack, Israel's Mossad spy agency reportedly planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers imported by Hezbollah months before they detonated across Lebanon on Tuesday the 18th, killing at least 12 people and wounding nearly 3,000.

Citing U.S. officials, The New York Times said that the operation was the result of a supply-chain interception and compromise that allowed Mossad or other Israeli operatives to plant explosives into the pagers before they were sold on to Hezbollah.

Mossad is Israel's foreign intelligence agency.

The explosive material was reportedly implanted next to the battery with a remote trigger switch. The exploding pagers were then detonated by a message impersonating the leaders of the group on Tuesday afternoon.

Tuesday's pager blasts took place between 15:30 and 16:30 local time on Sep 17, where Hezbollah has a strong presence – the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh and the Bekaa Valley, and as far as Syria's capital, Damascus.

CNN previously reported that the complex operation was a joint effort between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Mossad.

And today, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, tacitly acknowledging Israel's role in that operation, saying a “new era” in Israel's war effort is beginning. He added that said the center of gravity of the war was moving north.

“The IDF brings excellent achievements, together with the Shin Bet (Israel's domestic security agency), together with Mossad, all the bodies and all the frameworks and the results are very impressive results,” Gallant said during a visit to the Ramat-David Air Force base in northern Israel. 

This is just the beginning. Expect more Israeli James Bond-style operations against Hezbollah terrorists in the coming weeks.

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