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Initial investigations by Lebanese authorities have shown that the walkie-talkies that exploded this week “were booby-trapped before arriving in Lebanon,” Lebanon’s permanent mission to the United Nations said in a letter to UN Security Council Thursday.
The text of the letter sent to the Council on the eve of a meeting scheduled for Friday on this subject stated that “initial investigations showed that the targeted devices were professionally booby-trapped… before arriving in Lebanon.”
According to the Lebanese letter, the authorities also found that the devices, which included communication devices (badger) and other wireless communication devices (walkie talkie), which were detonated by sending electronic messages to the devices. The mission added that Israel was responsible for planning and executing the attacks.
Thirty-seven people were killed and nearly 3,000 others were injured when pagers were detonated on Tuesday, followed by walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah members on Wednesday, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
These devices exploded while their users were shopping in stores, walking in the streets and attending funerals, causing panic in the country.
Israel did not comment on the bombings, which occurred the day after it announced the expansion of the objectives of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip to include securing the northern border area with Lebanon in a way that would guarantee the return of Israeli residents to it. However, several security sources said that the Israeli intelligence agency (Mossad) It may have been carried out by the device, as it has a history of launching similar attacks.
The Lebanese mission described the bombings as “unprecedented in their brutality” and undermining diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting in Gaza and southern Lebanon.
She called on the UN Security Council to condemn the attacks ahead of an emergency session scheduled for Friday to discuss the attacks and the dangerous situation in the Middle East.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib is expected to attend the session, diplomatic sources told Agence France-Presse.
Since Israel launched its devastating war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, following Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa, the focus of Israeli military operations has been on Gaza.
But the border area between Israel and Lebanon witnesses a daily exchange of shelling between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, which has led to the killing of hundreds in Lebanon, dozens in Israel, and the displacement of tens of thousands of civilians on both sides.
The party asserts that the cross-border bombing operations are a “support front” for Gaza in light of the devastating war that the occupation forces have been waging for about a year.
