How and why did Israel blow up Hezbollah’s pagers? | The Daily T Podcast

It reads like something out of a spy thriller: thousands of pagers belonging to Hezbollah fighters exploded on Tuesday, killing at least 12 and wounding nearly 3,000 people. We bring you the remarkable story behind the attacks, believed to be caused by explosives planted in the devices by Israeli agents.

The Telegraph’s Senior Foreign Correspondent Roland Oliphant tells us whether the plot against Iran-backed Hezbollah could trigger an an all-out regional war. Plus, Jotam Confino reports from Israel on how local media are reacting to the audacious plot.

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[JohnsonEngti-yj]

The moral of the story is don't attack Israel..

[sosososososo]

They are in the state of war. Israel is probably the only country that gets blamed for winning the war that opponents started

[johannjohann]

WARNING: This newscast may contain video that many consider AWESOME!

[davianoinglesias]

Breaking News : Hundreds of HEzbollah members are now TRANSbollah after pagers exploded in their pockets.

[truthseeker]

Why is Israel defending itself provocation?

[kassahunbiresaw]

now the Lebanese people know who Hezbollah members are.

[elvisnnaemeka]

Hazebollah has been firing rockets in Israel for 1 year now. Then Israel retaliates, it becomes a MAJOR PROVOCATION?😂😂

[bradstory]

Do they seriously have the gall to ask WHY Israel did this? Shame on them.

[Julionking]

Blessed be Israel and all jewish communities around the world!

[givemeahi]

mossad pulled off some 007 level act for real. It's unmistakably nothing short of amazing

[JonathanJones-wp]

These pair is why I can't stand the main stream utter rubbish

[yeshayahuseeman]

How is a good question to ask. Why is insane. Hezbollah attacked Israel for no reason and since then they are exchanging artillery. They launched thousand of rockets, and directly attacked and killed israeli civilians with guided missiles and drones. How could anyone attempting to take themselves seriously ask "why" about this attack.

[rachelika]

Are they still saying 3000 injured instead of 3000 TERRORISTS injured? Misinformation never stops with these guys.

[JonathanJones-wp]

This was so funny and brilliant. Love the hosts thinking this may have gone too far....really October 7th was going too far....Targeting the right people brilliant.

[calee]

This is a war, these are combatants. It would be acceptable for any other country to target enemy operatives, why should Israel not be allowed to? Double standards as usual.

[josepholadiran]

When Israel retaliated to months of continuous daily barrages of missiles, it is called escalating the conflict. Meanwhile, everyone downplayed Hezbollah’s intransigence but rather make it a victimization for these aggressors.

[ragged_claws_scuttling]

Such wretched bias. Is this Al Jazeera?

[TheTinyRedDot]

please stop misgendering them, they are now known as HezBallsLess

[PedroFerreira-zeyp]

I didn´t even stop laughing about the pagers, and now this! Take it easy, Mossad! I can´t keep up with it!

[toriesepahmd]

The anchors seem really worried about Hezbollah. I’m sure The Telegraph lost some of their best ‘journalists’ in the area.