Source: Common Dreams
“Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday accused Israel of having ‘violated all red lines’ by killing at least 37 people and injuring thousands more in surprise bombings of pagers, walkie-talkies, and other devices across Lebanon, calling the audacious attack “an act of war” that will not go unpunished. In a televised speech during which Israeli warplanes flew over the Lebanese capital of Beirut, Nasrallah condemned the attack as ‘a major terrorist operation, an act of genocide, and a massacre’, adding that it ‘amounts to a declaration of war’. ‘The enemy used a civilian method used by a large segment of society and did so again on Wednesday by blowing up wireless devices without caring who was carrying them,’ the chief of the Iran-backed political and paramilitary group said. Numerous figures including United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres decried the weaponization of civilian objects.” (09/19/24)