Explosions apparently targeting walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah have killed at least nine people and wounded at least 300 in cities across Lebanon, a day after more than 2,800 were injured and 12 killed by exploding pagers in an attack blamed on Israel.

A source in Hezbollah confirmed that walkie-talkies used by the group were targeted in the attack. A senior security source said the individual explosions were “small in size”, similar to Tuesday’s attacks.

Several solar power systems exploded in people’s homes across Lebanon, according to the National News Agency, injuring at least one girl in the town of al-Zahrani, south Lebanon. Pictures of exploded solar panels, fingerprint readers and other devices circulated social media, though it was unclear whether they blew up by themselves or were near walkie-talkies that exploded.

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    Wow,

    What’s the trigger here?

    These are mines hidden in civilian products.

    Exploding either on purpose (triggered remotely), how do they verify their target before exploding?

    What happens to misfires?

    How the fuck did Israel think this was a good idea?

    Civilian takes their pager through an airport, gets flagged and imprisoned for life?

    What a clusterfuck

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      Israel has shown again and again that it doesn’t care how many civilians it kills. Like any fascist state, it wears its lack of compassion with pride.

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      How the fuck did Israel think this was a good idea?

      Probably for the same reason it thinks committing genocide is a good idea.

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      It doesn’t matter, Israel can murder anyone with impunity. They just cite Hamas, Self-defense or “security measures”.

      Then Matthew “Dracula” Miller says they will “look into it” and call it a day.

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      Why would Hezbollah give the pagers they bought for military communication to civilians?