Lebanon news live updates: 32 killed, over 3000 injured in Hezbollah device explosions
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Sep 19, 2024 10:17 AM IST
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live updates: Japanese firm says it stopped producing such radio models a decade ago
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live updates: Japanese firm Icom said that it had stopped producing the model of radios reportedly used in recent blasts in Lebanon around 10 years ago.
“The IC-V82 is a handheld radio that was produced and exported, including to the Middle East, from 2004 to October 2014. It was discontinued about 10 years ago, and since then, it has not been shipped from our company,” Icom said in a statement.
Icom also said it is not possible to confirm the origin of those devices due to a lack of hologram seal to distinguish fake products.
Sep 19, 2024 9:51 AM IST
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live updates: Health workers on alert in Lebanon
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live updates: Lebanese health ministry directed health workers to urgently report to work considering the “large number of injured people being transferred to hospitals” after the pager explosions, CNN reported. Officials have also urged people to donate blood in anticipation of increased need.
Sep 19, 2024 9:42 AM IST
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live updates: Netanyahu says “We will return the residents of the north securely to their homes”
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live updates: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said, “We will return the residents of the north securely to their homes,” he said in a brief video statement, giving no further details. Returning the evacuees home was made a formal objective of the war, with Israel adding that war might be the only way to stop Hezbollah’s rocket attacks in the north and enable its civilians to return to their homes there.
Sep 19, 2024 9:39 AM IST
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live updates: Israel says war’s ‘centre of gravity’ moving north amid ‘new phase’ in war
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live updates: Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant’s statement added to fears that war might escalate between the two sides. “The centre of gravity is moving north, meaning that we are allocating forces, resources and energy for the northern arena. We are at the start of a new phase in the war, and we must adapt.”
Sep 19, 2024 9:02 AM IST
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live updates: Taiwan link to electronic devices
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live updates: According to Gold Apollo Co, the Taiwanese company whose brand was on the exploding devices, the manufacturer of these pagers is BAC Consulting Kft, which produced them under a commercial agreement. But Budapest government said the company is only a “trading intermediary with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary”. Gold Apollo’s chairman in Taiwan, said he was puzzled when BAC asked to license production of its AR-924 pager two years ago but went ahead with what seemed a ‘routine’ deal.
Sep 19, 2024 7:20 AM IST
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live updates: Hezbollah responds after serial explosions
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live updates: Militant group Hezbollah said it attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets, the first strike at its arch-foe since the blasts. The response raises the prospect of a wider Middle East war.
Sep 19, 2024 7:19 AM IST
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live: Lebanon fears ‘Israel and its crimes’
Hezbollah-Israel tensions live: Lebanon’s Information Minister Ziyad Makari told Al-Jazeera TV that his country didn’t fear Hezbollah’s response, but “Israel and its crimes.” “What happened is a new kind of warfare, and investigations are ongoing by the state and Hezbollah,” he said.
“There will certainly be coordination between the state and the group to investigate, because the attack is on Lebanese sovereignty as a whole,” he added.
