The United States has confirmed that it wasn’t involved in the series of pager explosions that took place in Lebanon. Matthew Miller, US State Department spokesperson said that the United States is gathering information about the incident that happened in Lebanon. Miller said, ‘We are collecting information on this incident. I can tell you that the US was not involved in it. The US was not aware of this incident in advance. We’re gathering information at this point’.
Miller’s statement comes after Lebanon’s Health Minister confirmed a series of explosions across the country which resulted in the deaths of at least eight people and 2,750 injured. He said on the information the US has gathered, ‘We continue to collect information and I don’t have any public readout. We are collecting information in the same way that journalists are across the world to gather the facts about what might have happened’.
In response to a query about whether the US has any doubt about Israel’s involvement in the incident, he said, ‘I don’t have any assessment one way or another at this point’. He further said that, ‘I will not say anything on the impact of any incident, particularly in the early stages’. He further added, that US wants to see the diplomatic resolution to the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
On Tuesday, thousands of pagers turned into instruments of dilapidation in an attack against Hezbollah. Israeli operatives had fixed explosives in these pagers, which were fixed for Hezbollah’s communication network. The devices received a routine message, they exploded, causing the deaths of at least 11 people and injuring over 2,800 across Lebanon.
Taiwan-based Gold Apollo manufactured the pagers, initially fixed for low-tech communication among Hezbollah fighters, who discovered to avoid detection from advanced tracking systems. However, Israeli intelligence agents somehow managed to fix explosive components into these devices at the production stage. Under the guise of standard equipment, the pagers were then distributed to Hezbollah.
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