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Gold Apollo says it did not make pagers used in Lebanon explosions​


NEW TAIPEI, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Taiwan's Gold Apollo did not make the pagers that were used in the detonations in Lebanon on Tuesday, the company's founder Hsu Ching-Kuang told reporters on Wednesday.
At least nine people were killed and nearly 3,000 wounded when pagers used by Hezbollah members detonated simultaneously across Lebanon on Tuesday.
Images of destroyed pagers analysed by Reuters showed a format and stickers on the back that were consistent with pagers made by Gold Apollo. A senior Lebanese security source told Reuters that Hezbollah had ordered 5,000 pagers from the Taiwan-based Gold Apollo.

Hsu said the pagers used in the explosion were made by a company in Europe that had the right to use the Taiwanese firm's brand.
"The product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it,' he said.
Hsu did not name the company which he said manufactured the pagers, adding Gold Apollo was also a victim of the incident.
"We are a responsible company. This is very embarrassing," he said.
Hezbollah fighters began using pagers in the belief they would be able to evade Israeli tracking of their locations, two sources familiar with the group's operations told Reuters this year.
 
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Alat kelui yang digunakan oleh ratusan anggota kumpulan militan Hizbullah meletup hampir serentak di Lubnan dan Syria pada Selasa, membunuh sekurang-kurangnya sembilan orang - termasuk seorang kanak-kanak perempuan berusia 8 tahun - dan mencederakan beberapa ribu orang, kata pegawai. Hizbullah dan kerajaan Lubnan menyalahkan Israel atas apa yang kelihatan sebagai serangan yang canggih dan jauh. Seorang pegawai A.S. berkata Israel memberi taklimat kepada A.S. mengenai operasi itu - di mana sejumlah kecil bahan letupan yang dirembeskan dalam alat kelui telah diletupkan - pada hari Selasa selepas ia selesai. Orang itu bercakap dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan kerana mereka tidak diberi kuasa untuk membincangkan maklumat secara terbuka.

Tentera Israel enggan mengulas.

Antara yang cedera ialah duta Iran ke Lubnan. Letupan misteri itu berlaku di tengah-tengah ketegangan yang meningkat antara Israel dan Hizbullah yang disokong Iran, yang telah berbalas tembakan merentasi sempadan Israel-Lubnan sejak serangan 7 Oktober oleh Hamas yang mencetuskan perang di Gaza. Alat kelui yang meletup nampaknya telah diperoleh oleh Hizbullah selepas ketua kumpulan itu mengarahkan ahli pada Februari berhenti menggunakan telefon bimbit, memberi amaran mereka boleh dikesan oleh perisikan Israel. Seorang pegawai Hizbullah memberitahu The Associated Press bahawa alat kelui itu adalah jenama baharu tetapi enggan menyatakan berapa lama ia telah digunakan.​
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Hezbollah walkie talkies explode killing nine and leaving hundreds injured in second wave of carnage in Lebanon a day after pagers detonated en masse in 'Israeli operation'​


PUBLISHED: 15:24, 18 September 2024 | UPDATED: 17:27, 18 September 2024


Thousands of walkie talkies used by Hezbollah fighters have detonated across Lebanon, killing nine and wounding hundreds of people including mourners at a funeral, witnesses and security sources have reported.

The second wave of carnage comes a day after thousands of exploding pagers used by the group left almost 3,000 people injured and a dozen dead, including civilians and children.

Security sources have now confirmed that hand-held radios were purchased by Hezbollah five months ago, at around the same time as the compromised pagers. Lebanese media has also reported that home solar energy systems have blown up in several areas of Beirut.

The latest explosions this afternoon have hit the country's south and the capital Beirut, where dramatic time-lapse video shows multiple plumes of smoke rising above the skyline in different locations almost simultaneously.

Mourners were among the injured after multiple explosions occurred at the site of a funeral for three Hezbollah members and a child who were killed by the exploding pagers yesterday, according to reports.

The attacks amount to the biggest security breach in Hezbollah's history, with the group and its backers Iran condemning Israel and labelling it 'mass murder'.

Beirut's hospitals are reportedly still at full capacity following yesterday's attacks, with aid being rapidly diverted to the already crippled country amid the catastrophe.

The repetition of the clandestine attacks, which Israel has not taken responsibility for, will raise already spiking tensions in the region to fever pitch, with Lebanon's foreign minister today warning that the blasts are an omen of a widening war.
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Pictures purportedly showing exploded hand-held radios have been circulating online



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Flames rise up a building in Lebanon amid the explosions
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Local media has reports a fire breaking out in a car as a result of a device exploding
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Dramatic video shows the moment an explosion can be heard at a funeral gathering, with smoke rising over the crowds which then disperse
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An ambulance believed to be carrying wounded people, after multiple explosions were heard during the funeral of four Hezbollah fighters after their handheld pagers exploded, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024
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A picture circulating online appears to show one of the radio devices after it detonated
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A hand shows the destroyed pager or paging device that exploded on September 17, 2024
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Smoke billows from a house in Baalbek in east Lebanon after a reported explosion of a radio device, on September 18, 2024
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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned this afternoon that the strikes could be a precursor to a large-scale confrontation between Israel and Lebanon.

'The logic of making all these devices explode is to do it as a pre-emptive strike before a major military operation,' he said.

'These events confirm that there is a serious risk of a dramatic escalation in Lebanon and everything must be done to avoid that escalation.'

It has been alleged that Mossad, working in collaboration with Israel's Defence Forces (IDF), was behind yesterday's pager attacks, with Hezbollah officials already laying blame for the latest attacks with Israel.

Officials in Jerusalem have thus far declined to comment on yesterday's pager blasts, but Axios reports that two sources 'with knowledge of the operation' confirmed Israel's involvement.

The unnamed sources allege that the walkie-talkies were booby-trapped in advance by Israeli intelligence and then delivered to Hezbollah as part of its emergency communications system, which the group had planned to use during a war with Israel.

As well as security sources, weapons experts and regional analysts have also suggested that Israeli intelligence would have been capable of staging the pager attacks.

It has been widely theorised that intelligence services could have infiltrated the supply chain to plant a small quantity of high explosives within the pagers before they were delivered to Lebanon in the spring.

These rigged devices were subsequently distributed to thousands of unsuspecting members across the political, military, operational and medical branches of Hezbollah before they were eventually detonated on Tuesday afternoon.
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People gather as smoke rises from a mobile shop in Sidon, Lebanon September 18, 2024
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Pictures from inside a residential building appear to show blast damage
The death toll rose to 12, including two children, according to the Lebanese health ministry, while nearly 3,000 people were injured, including many of the militant group's fighters and Iran's envoy to Beirut.

A Taiwanese pager maker denied that it had produced the pager devices which exploded in the audacious attack.

Gold Apollo said the devices were made by under licence by a company called BAC, based in Hungary's capital Budapest.

Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, who studied in London and lists 'disaster management' as one of her skills, is listed as the Chief Executive of the company. She has denied any involvement with the pagers.

Pictures from Lebanon have shown the exploded communication devices, while further images from today showing damaged two-way radios.
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Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, who studied in London and lists 'disaster management' as one of her skills, is listed as the Chief Executive of the Hungarian-based company BAC Consulting said to have supplied the devices to the Lebanese group
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Hsu Ching-kuang (L), head of Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, speaks to the media outside the company's office in New Taipei City on September 18, 2024. Taiwanese company Gold Apollo on September 18 denied a report that it had produced thousands of explosive-packed pagers
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Hezbollah, which is proscribed as a terror organisation by the UK, US and others, has vowed to retaliate against Israel, whose military declined to comment on the blasts.

Earlier today, the group said it had attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets in the first strike at its arch-foe since the pager blasts.

The two sides have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the Gaza conflict erupted last October, fuelling fears of a wider Middle East conflict that could drag in the United States and Iran.
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People gather as smoke rises from a mobile shop in Sidon, Lebanon September 18, 2024
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi accused Israel of pushing the Middle East to the brink of a regional war by orchestrating a dangerous escalation on many fronts.

'Hezbollah wants to avoid an all-out war. It still wants to avoid one. But given the scale, the impact on families, on civilians, there will be pressure for a stronger response,' said Mohanad Hage Ali of the Carnegie Middle East Center.

Hezbollah, Iran's most powerful proxy in the Middle East, said in a statement earlier today that it would continue to support Hamas in Gaza and Israel should await a response to the pager 'massacre' which left fighters and others bloodied, hospitalised or dead.
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Thousands were injured when pagers across Syria and Lebanon exploded on Tuesday
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Both incidents saw scores of Hezbollah members severely injured throughout southern Lebanon and in its capital Beirut
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CCTV showed a person paying at a grocery store as a small handheld device next to the cashier exploded

Dozens of victims sustained severe facial injuries, with doctors explaining how they were forced to cut out victims' eyeballs.

Others had their hands blown off, or suffered gaping wounds in their abdomen had they concealed the pager on their hip.

Professor Elias Warrak, an ophthalmologist at Mount Lebanon University Hospital in Beirut, told the BBC he had never had to remove so many eyes in his 25-year-career, describing the experience as a 'nightmare'.

'Most of the patients were young men in their twenties and in some cases I had to remove both eyes,' he said, adding that he operated until 4am Wednesday morning and still had more patients to treat when he returned a few hours later.
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Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of kfar Kila near the border with Israel on September 18, 2024

At least 12 people are confirmed dead, including at least two children - one girl aged eight and an 11-year-old boy - according to Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad.

The Iranian Red Crescent said on Wednesday it had dispatched 'rescue teams and eye surgeons' to Lebanon to treat the wounded.

Iranian Foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement that he 'condemned the terrorist act of the Zionist regime', referring to Israel.
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Relatives mourn Fatima Abdallah, a 10-year-old girl among those killed in the pager explosions
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A street procession was held on Wednesday for the 10-year-old victim of the attack

Since yesterday's attack, the IDF revealed this morning that it had struck a number of Hezbollah targets across southern Lebanon, with video showing an aerial raid on one alleged terrorist hideout.

'Closing a circle from the air, fighter jets attacked the building where the terrorists were operating,' the IDF said in a statement.

'In addition, warplanes attacked the organization's military buildings in five different areas in southern Lebanon.'

The Israeli military added in a statement this morning that it would 'continue to operate against the threat of the Hezbollah terrorist organization in order to defend the State of Israel.'
 
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