Hundreds of Hezbollah pagers explode across Lebanon injuring thousands
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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At least nine people were killed, and thousands injured, including Hezbollah fighters, when pagers exploded in Lebanon. Hezbollah has blamed Israel as tensions continue along the Lebanon-Israel border.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday September 18th |
| 0:16.4 | 2024. This is the exit. Today why did Peagers explode across Lebanon? |
| 0:25.0 | Plus we take a look at polling around Americans' willingness or lack thereof to accept |
| 0:30.3 | this fall's election results, and how footage from a Netflix documentary |
| 0:34.5 | may help gymnast Jordan Chiles in her Olympic medal appeals process. |
| 0:38.8 | At least nine people were killed and nearly 3,000 injured, many of them Hezbollah fighters, |
| 0:46.0 | when the handheld pagers they used to communicate exploded. |
| 0:49.5 | Lebanon's health minister said yesterday. |
| 0:52.0 | A senior Lebanese security source and another |
| 0:54.1 | source told Reuters that Israel's Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside 5,000 |
| 1:00.4 | pagers imported by Hezbollah months before yesterday's detonations. |
| 1:05.0 | Iran-backed Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel, though Israel's military has |
| 1:09.4 | declined to comment on the blasts. |
| 1:11.7 | The incident came just hours after Israel's security |
| 1:14.0 | cabinet released a statement vowing to return tens of thousands of displaced |
| 1:18.1 | residents of Israel's northern areas to their homes. Hezbollah long Israel's enemy has repeatedly fired missiles at Israeli territory causing many |
| 1:26.7 | residents to flee south since Hamas's October 7th attacks and Israel's war in Gaza. Israel has for months warned that it could launch a military operation to drive Hezbollah away from its border. |
| 1:38.0 | The situation along Israel's northern border with Lebanon has fueled fears of a regional conflict that could |
| 1:44.4 | bring in the United States and Iran. You can read more with a link in today's show notes. |
| 1:49.7 | Nearly half of Republicans and a quarter of Democrats said they will not accept |
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