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2024-09-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel has blown up thousands of personal radios which were used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon
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From Grom’s link in comments, added for future searchability:
Several explosions were reported Wednesday afternoon in the Dahieh area of Beirut,
…Hezbollah’s bedroom community, until recently assumed to be protected from
Israeli attacks by the dense civilian population…
Lebanon, as exploding hand-held radios killed at least five people and injured approximately 500. Lebanon's state news agency reported that three people were killed in Beqaa.

According to Sky News Arabic, the explosions took place during the funeral for Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese MP Ali Ammar's son, who was killed when his beeper exploded on Tuesday.

The explosions occurred in multiple locations, including in private homes, the reports added. Injuries were reported in Dahieh, Ghaziyeh, and Al-Sarafand in southern Lebanon.

Meanwhile, Al-Hadath reported that 19 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were killed in the beeper explosions on Tuesday, and 150 were injured. Tehran has denied the reports. According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, approximately 3,000 people were injured in the explosions, and 12 were killed. # id) ?>
Posted by DarthVader 2024-09-18 10:52|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1835 views ]  Top
 File under: Hezbollah 

1 All sorts of radios and some other machines are blowing up today.
Posted by DarthVader 2024-09-18 10:53||   2024-09-18 10:53|| Front Page Top

2 Causes of explosions in Lebanon today:

Pagers
Walkie-talkie radios
Fingerprint machines
Solar energy systems
Cell phones
Posted by DarthVader 2024-09-18 10:54||   2024-09-18 10:54|| Front Page Top

3 Probably better to put vibrators away as well ;-)
Posted by European Conservative 2024-09-18 11:00||   2024-09-18 11:00|| Front Page Top

4 Is this a cunning plan or just the result of bad Chinese manufacturing? As they say, too much chinesium spoils the stew.
Posted by SteveS 2024-09-18 11:02||   2024-09-18 11:02|| Front Page Top

5 EC you made me spew coffee out my nose.

I needed a good laugh
Posted by DarthVader 2024-09-18 11:19||   2024-09-18 11:19|| Front Page Top

6 Looks like the cell phone one isn't correct. An older photo of one is being circulated as part of the current attack.
Posted by DarthVader 2024-09-18 11:28||   2024-09-18 11:28|| Front Page Top

7 Beeper explosions, round 2: Multiple explosions during funeral of Hezbollah MP's son

Asharq Al-Awsat reported that "hundreds" were wounded in the second wave, many of them in their stomachs and hands.

...Following the explosions, Hezbollah terrorists in Syria have been instructed to turn off all of their communications devices, Arab media reported.

A Sky News reporter attending one of the funerals said that Hezbollah terrorists are now throwing away both their phones' and their communications devices' batteries.

Reports soon said that the second "wave" of explosions affected thousands of military communications devices, which exploded within minutes of each other across Lebanon. This system is an alternate system, used following Tuesday's explosions.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-09-18 11:54||   2024-09-18 11:54|| Front Page Top

8 Prepping the battlefield?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2024-09-18 11:58||   2024-09-18 11:58|| Front Page Top

9 Report: 3 Killed, Hundreds Wounded as Hezbollah Walkie-talkies Explode

Additional Hezbollah devices explode across Lebanon
Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-18 12:22||   2024-09-18 12:22|| Front Page Top

10 So when do the electric cars start exploding like they already do on the streets of China?
Same for scooters
Posted by 3dc 2024-09-18 12:48||   2024-09-18 12:48|| Front Page Top

11 I'm thinking bomb and receiver built into the batteries
Posted by 3dc 2024-09-18 12:55||   2024-09-18 12:55|| Front Page Top

12 Is that really a Duracell?
Posted by 3dc 2024-09-18 12:56||   2024-09-18 12:56|| Front Page Top

13 Apparently even the Arab World is laughing at this!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-09-18 12:58||   2024-09-18 12:58|| Front Page Top

14 even the Arab World is laughing

Sure. As Iranians proudly point out, they are Persians, not Arabs.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-18 13:01||   2024-09-18 13:01|| Front Page Top

15 ...Following the explosions, Hezbollah terrorists in Syria have been instructed to turn off all of their communications devices, Arab media reported.

Mission accomplished
Posted by Mercutio 2024-09-18 13:21||   2024-09-18 13:21|| Front Page Top

16 They already got a scooter.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-09-18 13:22||   2024-09-18 13:22|| Front Page Top

17 Please tell me that they're not Baofeng. I have a couple of those.
Posted by ed in texas 2024-09-18 13:23||   2024-09-18 13:23|| Front Page Top

18 Explosions heard at pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Forces HQ in Mosul - report
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-09-18 13:33||   2024-09-18 13:33|| Front Page Top

19 UN rights chief calls for investigation into Middle East pager explosions
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Wednesday called for an independent investigation into the events surrounding exploding pagers that killed at least 12 people in Syria and Lebanon.

The simultaneous targeting of thousands of individuals, without knowing who held the devices or their location violated international human rights law and possibly international humanitarian law, Turk said in a statement.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-09-18 13:35||   2024-09-18 13:35|| Front Page Top

20 Kind of makes the people worried that the Chyna EVs could be used to create a mass chaos not look as kookie.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-18 13:46||   2024-09-18 13:46|| Front Page Top

21 
Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 14:05||   2024-09-18 14:05|| Front Page Top

22 
Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 14:08||   2024-09-18 14:08|| Front Page Top

23 When the war starts, no Hezbollah will be carrying anything electronic.
Posted by Angstrom 2024-09-18 14:42||   2024-09-18 14:42|| Front Page Top

24 
Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 15:03||   2024-09-18 15:03|| Front Page Top

25 From former rantburg.com moderator ryuge:

Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 15:06||   2024-09-18 15:06|| Front Page Top

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Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 15:11||   2024-09-18 15:11|| Front Page Top

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Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 15:16||   2024-09-18 15:16|| Front Page Top

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Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 15:18||   2024-09-18 15:18|| Front Page Top

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Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 15:23||   2024-09-18 15:23|| Front Page Top

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Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 15:27||   2024-09-18 15:27|| Front Page Top

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Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 15:33||   2024-09-18 15:33|| Front Page Top

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Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 15:38||   2024-09-18 15:38|| Front Page Top

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Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 15:39||   2024-09-18 15:39|| Front Page Top

35 
Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 15:42||   2024-09-18 15:42|| Front Page Top

36 ^Well, that'll be illegal in California, right?
Posted by Bobby 2024-09-18 16:08||   2024-09-18 16:08|| Front Page Top

37 
Posted by badanov 2024-09-18 16:21||   2024-09-18 16:21|| Front Page Top

38 #19 UN rights chief calls for investigation into Middle East pager explosions

"In the firelit Mohammedan murk,
Dire dilemmas for Zionists lurk,
Like, er, whether to take
The advice of a snake!"
- Österreichischer jerk Volker Turk
Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2024-09-18 18:19||   2024-09-18 18:19|| Front Page Top

39 #32 is SPOT ON!
Posted by Frank G 2024-09-18 18:49||   2024-09-18 18:49|| Front Page Top

40 Go ryuge!

I think my favourite so far is

Israeli Chief of Staff on Lebanon attacks: "We still have many capabilities,at every stage we operate we are already 2 stages ahead. At every stage the price in Hezbollah should be high.We will make it so that terrorists will be afraid of going to the toilet & even eating food."

Though all the rest are wonderful, too.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-18 18:59||   2024-09-18 18:59|| Front Page Top

41 "We will make it so that terrorists will be afraid of going to the toilet & even eating food."

I eagerly look forward to the first exploding toilet story.

As Mahmood sat down to poo,
He heard a curious sound in the loo.
"Whatever's that ticking?"
"Them Juice they be tricking?"
Then his carcass kaboomed up the flue.
Posted by SteveS 2024-09-18 19:13||   2024-09-18 19:13|| Front Page Top

42 # 35, bravo.
Posted by Jack Salami 2024-09-18 19:19||   2024-09-18 19:19|| Front Page Top

43  #16 Now that is what I call a crotch rocket!
Posted by Glavinter Peacock7962 2024-09-18 19:53||   2024-09-18 19:53|| Front Page Top

44 The Mohammedan's Modern Commode,
Or, "Your plumbing is now up to code."

"Bottom comfortably warm,
I can come to no harm!"
"Till we send the command to explode."
Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2024-09-18 20:42||   2024-09-18 20:42|| Front Page Top

45 
Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-18 23:48||   2024-09-18 23:48|| Front Page Top

15:51 DarthVader
15:32 NoMoreBS
14:32 badanov
14:26 Silentbrick
14:10  chris
14:06 Skidmark
13:48 Bugs the Wicked6167
13:15 badanov
13:09 DarthVader
12:57 Grom the Reflective
12:06 Grom the Reflective
11:57 Bobby
11:55 Grom the Reflective
10:47 DarthVader
10:39 Silentbrick
10:14 Bobby
10:13 badanov
10:00 Snesing Schwarzeneggar8998
09:58 Besoeker
09:45 Bobby
09:34 Warthog
09:22 Besoeker
09:17 Mercutio
09:13 Glenmore
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