Hezbollah pager attack: a new war frontier?

Multiple reports suggest that Israel’s spy agency Mossad placed explosives in thousands of Hezbollah pagers. They subsequently detonated, and according to Lebanon’s health ministry, at least 12 people were killed, and at least 2,750 are in hospital.

Is Israel behind the attack? What does this mean for tensions between Lebanon and Israel - could Israel find itself fighting a war on two fronts?

The Spectator’s assistant online editor Angus Colwell is joined by Paul Wood, former BBC foreign correspondent and Spectator contributor.

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[claudiaabadi]

I was not surprised by the commentator respond regarding the pagers. He worked for the BBC, and we all know how much the BBC presenters "love" Israel.

[MDCDiGiPiCs]

Reckless attack? So what do you call the indiscriminate rocket attacks?

[baltasarnoreno]

The folks at Novara Media have reportedly switched off their mobiles, iPads, laptops, Kindles, Xboxes and sex toys.

[TheShadowfakx]

Calling the most surgical large scale military operation in history reckless is reckless.

[michaelmichael]

According to this guy and other Israel critics and enemies, Israel should have done a thorough environmental assessment as well, besides informing their enemies on what they wanted to do. Buddy, get a life 😅😅

[SierraSierraFoxtrot]

OFC the BBC guy would call it reckless.

How many more civilians will be hurt if Hezbollah feels confident in going to war?

[simplesimon]

Breaking news. Man loses testicle. Meanwhile, meatballs in Tuscan sauce becomes popular in Lebanon.

[hellohellohellohellohello-hl]

These people really do live in la-la land, don't they? 2 civilian deaths is about as low as possible, but that's still "reckless"?

[maureenbarclay]

Starting a war and they moaning that the person you attacked retaliated. Stop holding Israel to a higher standard than those who hate them

[bellairsviewcomplex]

When you look at the video, the guy closer to the one with a pager was not hurt. Not even his shirt was torn a bit. How reckless that can be?

[adtastic]

United Nations workers have apparently handed their pagers back en masse

[nba]

Ex BBC reporter calling this “reckless” is complete nonsense. Absolutely ridiculous. Incredibly precise.

[simontrober]

Reckless? How friggin' precise does the IDF have to be from your nutty POV?

As a matter of war, you can't get more precise or more moral than how the IDF have conducted themselves.

[RichardEnglander]

Genius. Can you imagine how paranoid they are now?

[rich]

Did they think they could fire rockets into Israel daily and not expect a response

[libs-Suk-Balz]

The leaders are embarrassed
But the foot soldiers had their balls bliwn off.

[jeffmeyer]

Israel did a targeted attack on terrorist operatives while having minimal non- terrorist casualties

[richardrohail]

Their new name is Hez-ball-less, they are zoomies

[oneononebilliardinstructio]

No criticism over the daily attacks on Israel.
Stop attacking Isreal and they won't attack back.
Guy is bias

[morgana]

We should not call that person the 'supreme leader'. That is what he likes to call himself, but he is nowhere near being supreme or a leader. He is a dictator of the worst kind, evil and disgraceful.