Hezbollah holds Israel ‘fully responsible’ for pager explosions, vows retaliation

By Gianluca Pacchiani

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17 September 2024, 7:18 pm 40 Edit

Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel

Hezbollah says it holds Israel “fully responsible” for the coordinated detonation of hundreds of pagers throughout Lebanon. The terror group says it has come to this conclusion after a probe of the facts and the available information.

In a statement, the terror group vows retribution for the “criminal aggression that also targeted civilians,” and says its “martyrs and wounded” were sacrificed in the name of its jihad “on the road to Jerusalem,” its term usually applied to operatives targeted in Israeli strikes.

The terror group vows that its response will come “from where the enemy expects it and from where it does not expect it.”