Palestinian Islamic Jihad confident Hezbollah will ‘absorb the blow’ of pager attack, ‘respond quickly’

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group strongly condemns the large-scale explosion of pagers held by Hezbollah members in Lebanon and in Syria today, which the Lebanese government and Hezbollah have attributed to Israel, describing it as an “obvious war crime” as civilians were injured, even though the Lebanese terror group appears to have been the target.

Israel “resorting to this option, in the framework of its psychological warfare, is an indicator of its level of frustration and the scarcity of options at its disposal after the blows it received from multiple fronts supporting the Palestinian people,” the terror group claims in a statement.

“We are fully confident that the Islamic resistance in Lebanon and Syria will be capable of absorbing this vicious blow, contain its consequences rapidly, and respond to the enemy proportionately to the scale of the crime and the targeting of civilians inside their homes, especially the families of resistance fighters,” PIJ writes.