The Israeli army assures “continue to demolish the infrastructure and capabilities (…) of Hezbollah to defend the State of Israel“. In a statement released late Thursday, September 19, the forces of the Hebrew state declared that they had “hit about 100 launchers and other (…) terrorist infrastructure representing about 1,000 guns“. The shootings came after the leader of the Lebanese Shiite movement, Hassan Nasrallah, described the deadly explosions of its strike transmission devices “unprecedented” brought to the pro-Iran organization. Follow our live.
An emergency meeting at the UN. The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the series of deadly explosions of Hezbollah beepers and other transmission devices in Lebanon, the Slovenian presidency of the council announced on Wednesday. The meeting, requested by Algeria, will take place at 3 p.m., or 9 p.m. in Paris, the presidency said.
Hezbollah promises “terrible” response. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah assured Thursday that Israel would receive “a terrible punishment and a just retribution”after the deadly explosions of the Islamist group’s transmission devices in Lebanon, which he attributes to the Hebrew State. He assured that he would not give any details on “timing, place or nature” of the response that the movement is preparing, adding that the Islamist group had opened an internal investigation into these explosions. “Lebanon’s front with Israel will remain open until the end of the aggression in Gaza,” hammered Hassan Nasrallah.
Two hearings in Taiwan in the investigation into pagers. Two representatives of Taiwanese companies have been questioned in Taiwan as part of the investigation into the origin of Hezbollah’s booby-trapped pagers in Lebanon. “We have asked the Bureau of Investigation to continue [jeudi] the hearing as witnesses of two persons attached to Taiwanese companies”, the prosecution said, while the New York Times had claimed that the beepers that exploded on Tuesday came from the Taiwanese company Gold Apollo. In the process, the group pointed the finger at its Hungarian partner BAC, which was authorized to use its brand. A A preliminary investigation by the Lebanese authorities also shows that the devices were trapped before entering the country, according to a letter from the Lebanese mission to the UN, seen by AFP.
Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron advocate diplomacy. Emmanuel Macron spoke directly to the Lebanese people on Thursday in a video on social media, assuring them that a “diplomatic path exists” and that “War is not inevitable”. “Nothing, no regional adventure, no private interest, no loyalty to any cause whatsoever deserves to trigger a conflict in Lebanon”he added, assuring that France was at “sides” Lebanese people. For his part, the American president believes that a diplomatic resolution of the conflict is “feasible”White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday.