by Yasmine El-Sabawi at Middle East Eye
In what seemed like a coordinated attack straight out of a Hollywood production, simultaneously exploding pagers on Tuesday afternoon seriously wounded members of the Lebanese group Hezbollah – along with some medics – from southern Lebanon to its east, and in the capital Beirut.
Hezbollah said this is the biggest security breach it has experienced to date, and it is vowing to punish Israel. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the pager attack, and historically, it does not claim attacks on foreign soil.
The attack comes one day after the Biden administration’s envoy to the region, Amos Hochstein, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to caution him against opening up a wider front with Hezbollah along Israel’s northern border.
The exchange of fire between the two parties has thus far been limited to the border region, save for Israel’s assassination of a senior Hamas leader further inland early this year.
Analysts told Middle East Eye that they place the blame squarely on the Biden administration for not reigning in Israel throughout the last 11 months of its war on Gaza…
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