Yesterday’s deadly pager attack, which killed nine people and injured more than 2,700 across Lebanon, has been blamed on Israel.
Scenes of widespread panic and chaos were seen in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon, while in neighbouring Syria 14 people were injured in the blasts, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor.
More than 2,750 people were injured across Lebanon, with more than 300 in critical condition, after pagers used by the outlawed terror group Hezbollah detonated over a one-hour period yesterday afternoon.
The scenes of terror in Lebanon and Syria were allegedly caused by Israel’s shadowy intelligence agency, the Mossad, which collaborated with the IDF to plant explosives in pagers.
The Mossad has a long history of elaborate maneuvers on foreign soil, first gaining infamy after successfully carrying out the audacious 1960 capture of high-ranking Nazi Adolf Eichmann, one of the key architects of the Holocaust.
After the agency was informed that Eichmann, who fled Germany in the final days of World War II, was hiding in Buenos Aires, Argentina, they sent a top investigator to search for clues.
After weeks of investigation, they located and identified the sick Nazi, who by then lived as ‘Ricardo Klement’ in the Argentine capital as a worker, a quiet and peaceful life that contrasted markedly with the misery and suffering he caused to millions of people.
The Mossad rose to fame after successfully carrying out the daring 1960 capture of high-ranking Nazi Adolf Eichmann (pictured)
Mossad assassinated Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (pictured), head of Iran’s nuclear program in 2020
More than 2,750 people were injured across Lebanon, with more than 300 in critical condition.
Then-Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, assessing that Argentina was unlikely to formally extradite Eichmann, decided to task the Mossad with kidnapping him and bringing him to Israel to stand trial for his crimes.
On May 11, 1960, Mossad agents approached Eichmann as he was returning home from work on the bus. They approached him and asked if he had a moment before they threw him to the ground, put him in a car and hid him in a blanket before transporting him to a safe house that had been prepared for his arrival.
He was held there for nine days while investigators worked to fully confirm his identity.
He was then sedated and put on an El Al flight with a false passport back to Israel, where he stood trial for his crimes.
Although Eichmann is perhaps the most famous example of a Mossad target, the agency has had many other high-profile, even more lethal incidents.
The most notable was in 2020, shortly after the US eliminated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, when the Mossad assassinated Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the head of Iran’s nuclear program.
Fakhrizadeh headed Iran’s uranium enrichment program as well as the military’s research and development wing.
The shocking incident left dozens of Hezbollah members seriously injured across southern Lebanon and its capital, Beirut.
Pagers were seen detonating across Lebanon.
The pagers are believed to have been loaded with explosives by the Mossad.
Thousands of people, both Hezbollah members and civilians, were injured.
On November 27, 2020, he was killed while driving on a rural road near Tehran.
Although the exact details of his death are debated, it is believed that he was killed by a remotely operated machine gun in the back of a car that had stopped next to his.
According to one account, he was shot 13 times from a distance of 150 metres before the car he was riding in exploded. corroborated by Ali Shamkhani of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
The Mossad, along with the Israel Defense Forces, were also reported to have been involved in Tuesday’s pager attacks.
The security service and the military are said to have filled the pagers, which Hezbollah ordered from a Taiwanese company called Gold Apollo, with one or two ounces of explosive material together with a detonator.
The detonators were activated at around 3:30pm local time (1:45pm UK time) on Tuesday after receiving A message that appeared to come from Hezbollah’s top brass, but in reality the message activated the explosives.
A still image taken from a UGC video posted on social media on September 17, 2024 shows men covered in blood in the southern suburbs of Beirut after dozens of Hezbollah group members were injured when their pagers exploded.
At least nine people have died in pager attacks
Video footage from inside a Beirut supermarket appears to show the moment Israel sent its deadly message.
A Hezbollah attacker was seen lifting his shirt in a confused manner in a supermarket after receiving a message on his pager, which lit up.
He stared at it for a second before it detonated, collapsing in an instant as supermarket workers and other shoppers panicked and fled.
Although Israel may have intended to eliminate Hezbollah fighters, nearly 3,000 people, many of whom are civilians, were seriously injured in the series of explosions.
Harrowing video footage from inside medical institutes in the country’s capital, Beirut, has revealed the dire consequences of the simultaneous explosions, which Hezbollah and the Lebanese government have blamed on Israel.