PNN – Edward Snowden, a former employee and whistleblower of the US National Security Agency, announced in a statement that the incident in Lebanon was actually a bombing and a terrorist operation, not a hacker attack.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, Snowden wrote in a message on his user account on X social media: As information about pagers or message receiving devices blown up in Lebanon spreads, it appears they were planted with explosives, not hacked.
He added: Continuous and very serious injuries prove this hypothesis. Lithium batteries do not explode if they overheat, but rather small and incomplete fires are expected.
Snowden continued: What Israel has done is completely reckless. They blew up countless people who were driving, shopping and doing other things. This action is no different from terrorism.
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Lebanese representative: Most of the injured from the explosions were injured in the eye area
Lebanon’s Hezbollah announced in a statement: On Tuesday, a number of “Pager” message receiving devices, which were used by a number of workers of various Hezbollah units and institutions, “exploded mysteriously” during which a girl and 2 of our brothers were killed and many others were injured.
Hezbollah added: The relevant institutions in Hezbollah are currently conducting extensive security and scientific research to find the reasons for the occurrence of these simultaneous explosions, and medical and health services are also treating the injured in a number of hospitals in different regions of Lebanon.
The Minister of Health of Lebanon announced that 9 people were martyred and about 2,750 people were injured in the explosion of pager devices in this country.
Stephen Dujarric, the spokesman of the United Nations, said after the explosion of hundreds of pagers belonging to Hezbollah members that left more than 2,000 injured and 9 dead and emphasized: The developments in Lebanon are particularly worrying given the “highly unstable” conditions.