From Explosives implanted in devices before they arrived in Lebanon, Lebanon’s UN mission says
A man holds a walkie-talkie device after he removed the battery during the funeral of persons killed when hundreds of paging devices exploded in an alleged Israeli attack on Hezbollah across Lebanon the previous day, in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 18, 2024. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
A preliminary investigation by Lebanese authorities into the communications devices that exploded in Lebanon this week found that they were implanted with explosives before arriving in Lebanon, according to a letter by the Lebanese mission to the United Nations that was seen by Reuters.
The authorities also determined the devices, which included pagers and hand-held radios, were detonated by sending electronic messages to the devices, says the letter, sent to the UN Security Council.
Israel has been blamed for the attack on the Hezbollah devices, but has not taken responsibility.
