the, the safe, the mean, big summit as an international inside corruption, excellence award, denominator hero. now, the 9 people are killed and nearly 3000 are injured. many of the members as belong, after their communication devices exploded, singleton. you see across the level, the sort of any age groups happy with us. this is alpha 0 life and go on. we continue to follow the developing situation and living on, including many of the wounded being taken to local hospitals, 250, of the injured or in critical condition. has the lovely israel to the coordinated.

meanwhile, is really army has attacked yet another refugee camp in central gaza. at least 80 people are fear and buried under the rubble. the so 9 people had been killed and 11 on a nearly 3000 injured after hundreds of personal communication devices exploded. single tenuously across the country. it's believed most of the pages were being carried by members of hezbollah, as belies blaming israel for the attack ex assignment which begins our coverage. oh, wow. okay. also across the webinar is devices meant for communication for turned into bombs. exploding in the hands of hundreds of people, many whose bullet members jazz has that is the page devices that we've been using. all of them are exploding in the guys. this footage captures the moment one of the

pages that donated reports suggest the explosions were caused by high technology targeting pagers, largely used by members of the around back group. hospitals are now over while struggling to cope with the influx of interest. people we don't have room anymore in the hospitals. there's more than $400.00 men here. they're peters exploded. the ones they use for communication. these a big assassination, big assassination. the liberties health ministry has the shoot. an urgent call telling people not to use features on the streets. the scale of the attack is clear . hundreds language, the floor bloodied and days seeking help has below official has called is the biggest security breach. and it's year long. conflict with israel has bullet has recently switched to using pages as a more secure alternative to the groups leader hudson to throw

a cold on his spiders to a band and smartphones appearing israel's ability to hacked at devices. the switch was meant to enhance security, but the may have created a new weakness, a, these really intelligence managed to compromise the pages that being supplied heads by which and not excluding that they have managed to access the supply by you wrong. now. and the peroration of this case needs the presence of a high explosive, even in small quantity. and the know for a long time to sit on every single page at the at tech spend most of the locations across lebanon. suggesting a coordinated and sophisticated operation. while israel hasn't commented so far, this comes just hours of to reset to have stopped his bullet attacked on a swim. tuesdays attack in loveland only seen is a significant escalation. after months of cross border attacks by israel and has

been la access, i'm reached out to 0. emergency departments have been inundated with injured has blown members and civilians. local media reports save a page or a single tenuously exploded across the country after being hacked by israel. the health industry has appealed to all citizens who own pagers to dispose of them. several shots witnesses have been warning others to get rid of their pages. jazz the, the page of devices that we've been using, all of them are exploding in the guys. we're moving for the engine. all are going to the hospital, especially. we don't have room anymore in the hospitals. there's more than $400.00 men here. there peters exploded the ones they use for communication. these a big assassination. big assassination of the office of the lebanese caretaker, prime minister, nurse, you, mccarthy, issued a statement saying we condemned the criminal is really aggression that constitutes a serious violation of lebanese sovereignty. we have started the necessary

communications with the concerned countries and the un to hold them accountable for this persistent criminality as, as the law has also just released a statement. lang, blame for the attack and living on it says, quote, we hold is really and to be fully responsible for this criminal regression which also effective civilians and led to a number of martyrs and entering a large number and quote, as bringing houses here is honda. so who, which was with a slide from the drawer, daniel and capital amman were reporting on his really affairs from amman because these really government has banned al 0 from reporting inside israel. so honda, the israelis on their end have not officially or unofficially claimed responsibility for any of us. no word from the is really is not from the government, these really military or any other sort of security body. but we are hearing from is really media that the prime minister has now gathered at top security brass.

that includes these really defense minister of the army, chief of staff, perhaps the national security advisor for a top level meeting at israel to the that's the defense ministry. intel a be the at this hour to deal with potentially the fallout that could come from these attacks in 11 on previously. we have heard that the is really, is, are up in their readiness that they are prepared for anything. but let's talk about what happened last night at israel security cabinet meetings. the issue of lebanon was the top agenda item, even though the warren gauze that has been going on for nearly a year. the issue when it comes to roles. northern border has now taken center stage within the defense and security apparatus so much so that benjamin netanyahu has added a new 4th goal to the war. the 3 previous ones only pertains israel's, were on gaza. but this 4th one is now relating to the northern part of the country, bringing back these really 2 had been evacuated by the government after october,

the 8th. when the cross border buyer began, there's been a lot of tension within the defense and security establishment. a lot of tension from residents and people who are in charge in those towns because the government essentially hasn't had any sort of plan for how to get them back there. and i, i understand what you're saying about the, the is really work goals having been expanded. does that mean that these really security establishment, or these really prime minister ones and all that war with levon on his belong as well. this could mean a wide variety of things, look, israel has signal that they don't want a full scale war. they don't want something that could spill over into a wider regional conflict. and that's something that has actually been both privately and publicly pushed on these rallies by a lot of their allies, including the united states. israel has said they don't want it, but they are willing to fight this war. meaning that they have taken preparations.

they will do anything they will and lease any sort of weapon in their arsenal, if it means deterring to be a handful of threats. so look, it's not exactly knowing what israel's next steps are. what their next moves are. they don't exactly let the public know what they're going to be doing when it comes to maintaining their security brass and other sort of systems. but it's also worth mentioning, but there's been a lot of rhetoric from is really officials think they're not afraid to turn 11 on specifically beta into another dog. the, they're not afraid to have an attack that would lead israel into an offensive rather than being on the defensive and then going back to be offensive. but they would be ready for anything in this case, but it's still not exactly know what israel will do. they've said they don't want to war, but they said they would be willing to play one right. honda. so reporting from amman, jordan, thank you very much. let's get the latest on this from zeta holder, saying is joining us from the lebanese capital bay route. so its 17 gmc, it's 8 pm where you are as a now it's the end of what's been a very long afternoon,

a deadly afternoon. 9 people have been killed. you're just maybe starting to catch your breath and breath and taking the whole scope of what's happened this afternoon . can you sort of describe what everything looks like at 8 pm? be real time of the everyone's mind 11 on is what comes next. what are the consequences of this large scale coordinator, the task that is being called, and attack hospitalized calling? it's a criminal aggression. it is blaming israel. it is promising a response. it says, israel is fully responsible but has, well, that does not say what his plans to do or when it plans to do this. you know, this punishment if you like, the lebanese government is also calling this and this radio russian with some official saying, you know that this is

a dangerous development. both has been on is really, really have been calibrating their attacks. their confrontations are 11 months confrontation which was triggered by the war in plaza, has been largely limited, confined to military targets. is this just another episode in this ongoing confrontation, another escalation, or israel carry this out as you know, paving the ground if you like, for a potential escalation and the conflict, especially if it comes on the heels of an intensification, if you like in the ongoing confrontations along the border. so there's a lot of concern here, a lot of questions on, you know, what are the consequences of this attack? and where is the war between hezbollah as well, which really has been described as a war of attrition. where it's, where is this heading is in a hezbollah has message pretty clearly in recent days that they don't want to escalate. they don't want and all that war with israel, of the not just in recent days and recent weeks and recent months,

they've said this since the start that they opened up a friend to help relieve military pressure on what is happening along the borders. the support front and for them they have uh, you know, achieve their goal by displacing tens of thousands of civilians is released from their homes in northern israel, which really is putting a lot of pressure on these rated governments. and this is why we've been hearing officials and recent days use inflammatory rhetoric, saying that they will expand the conflict in order to return residents to their homes. in certain we're here, we've heard from high ranking house, below officials in recent days where i've said that a large scale where will not return residence to northern israel. in fact, it will create further displacements. so both sides really know that they can hurt each other. but at the same time, there is a lot of concern that as well could escalate this conflict. maybe strike um you know, deeper inside level and that's what they've been doing in recent days. yes,

we've had that very striking in areas deep inside live in on, in recent months. but in recent days we've seen them, you know, carry out more expensive, strikes deeper inside leaven on and south loaded on in the west. the con hezbollah too, by the way, i mean it's not just these various hezbollah too, has been striking deeper inside israel, according to its way the media up 272100000 additional is rate. these are now in the line of fire in northern israel, so both sides really sending exchanging fire, but at the same time exchanging messages. but the biggest question is, what happens next? are we heading for further escalation, or, you know, are we climbing this ladder slowly, or will there be, you know, something different this time around it? i think you can provide, or viewers with some useful context on the method of the attack. or rather the fact it has full was already acutely aware that it's communications devices could be turned against it. yes,

hezbollah and others have described this war. it's a war of attrition. yes. but it was, it's also an intelligence war. and they know that they're up against an enemy which has superior technology and a lot of intelligence information. and it's really, it has become quite clear how much israel has information on the organization. they've been targeting fighters and their vehicles, and they're on motorcycles, not just in southern lebanon, deeper inside the oven, and they've killed a senior field commanders. they've even killed the chief of staff of hezbollah. they are, you know, an end at the end of jude and the end of july, excuse me, in a surgical strike in the hearts of babe. ruth has bell as chief house on the throne of himself. and his speech as he addressed the, the fighter along the front lines, telling them, throw away your phones, do not use phones as well as locating you. he actually addressed his fighters during that speech. but, but you know, and,

and they know that they know that they are up against a technologically a superior enemy. and, and we're also hearing reports that have members in neighboring syria have been injured by page or explosions. so yes, how's the law is facing an intelligence for? and, and, and this is not going to be easy. this was the device, but they were now using this communication network. so what is wrong has done in one way or another is disrupt the command and control what, you know, what network are they going to use? now the 0 is in a, for the reporting from the lebanese capital b route, where it is just past 8 pm local time. thank you very much. they know, well, earlier i spoke to live in on the health minister of your us. that'd be odd from the root. he gave us more details about the injuries presented at hospitals across the country. most of the engine is on either the face, especially the eyes are in the hand or, and the side of the flying. and you have them. and you know,

the patients where the poor thing that the, the swear the results of a communication device that they had with them, that the accurate explosive and cause these kinds of engines. you mentioned that over a 100 hospitals have been involved in treating the injured how, how's the hospital system holding up right now? well, you know, we haven't been since the events and stuck with uh, you know, live in an as you know and started reactivated, our company come to emergency operating system, the center. and we have been doing things and depending disaster plans with the hospitals, with our partners in the 2nd. so we activated these active plans, and unfortunately the geographical distribution that we send you these less by twice, we saw that there was cases invaded within the southern southern suburbs. but we

also had cases in the south cases. and because, and that explains the large number of hospitals that were receiving the casualties . we had a very good response. and the, you know, from a coordination perspective in the sense that we weren't able to direct them. but i, as the patients, uh so that, you know, none of the suspect things was actually at each stage with, you know, it was over there and i think that the response was, well, but clearly our thoughts are with the injured. and you know, especially those of them, well, i didn't, could take it from the minister beyond the immediate health response. where do you think this is taking living on that but it's clear that you know, uh, unfortunately, uh, you know, that agent and i think a large part of the, the machine community has been boiling for an immediate cease fire from, uh, you know, has that to to 11 i think that this is clearly

a step in the wrong direction. i think that. busy the parties who are intent on that they can go to escalate thing this conflict. and unfortunately from a health perspective, i think this is deputy mental for the people of the agent. with the office of the is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu has added just in the last 24 hours and you go to there war a was and that is to be able to bring there is really residents back to live in the northern part of israel that which is on the border with level known i would add, that could have been a signal that israel is willing able and intends to widen its war against his below. is that something that concerns you? of course, i think that everybody is not the only and that agent. i think we have seen evidence a little bit of concern for the i thought with these with the, you know,

this conflict is bringing to everybody, especially with the people and for the people. okay. and that's why the message of the menus, governments from day one was the government does not more than one and that's weeks gone. for days he's fired from has to do nothing. and i, i think that this is extremely important. we are also as over and implementing the 17. 0 one. how do you expect has the lot to respond to this? you know, it's difficult for me to any um but it, it to especially that i'm you know, more often than that. but then i think what is important to me from her perspective is that this condition uh, is extremely important. and that's a really clear lean towards the explanation. and that's an immediate cease fire from the are the most free is a professor media studies at the doha institute for graduate studies. thank you for joining us in the studio mohammed. we've had

a couple of hours the start to begin to digest this really the big questions we or left with right now or why, why did this real carried out this attack? assuming it is indeed israel, what the attack means and where it's taking us, which of these do you want to address for us? or i think we can maybe address all of them are simultaneously essentially, i think the, you know, the 1st thing that i, that i thought of when i, when i got news of this was israel's larger deterrence, the strategy ariel sharon, the former prime minister of israel describe this as israel's greatest weapon, he talked about quote, the fear of us moshi, diane, former is really a military leader talked about how it was necessary that israel's enemies see it as a quote mad dog. so they carry out these very provocative attacks to instill fear, in their enemies, not just against military targets, but against civilian targets. so we could talk about if there's time, the delphi, a doctor in which calls for maximum or damage to be inflicted to civilians and

civilian areas. we could talk about, you know, the 100 to one ratio where they allow all kinds of collateral damage, right? so called collateral damage to, to civilians, right? if they, if they identify a military commander or someone, a high level, the kills on policies or all kinds of policies. all of them are designed to not just win a sort of tactical battle, but to instill fear in their enemies so that no one basically messes with israel. so that was the 1st thing that i, that i thought of. and that sort of the, as everybody to know, why keep messaging to everybody across the region has blah and others keep messaging. we are the strongest, most fear, some fighting force in the region. don't start something. yeah. and that's the idea . yes. and it, they don't even get there, these countries by the way, how it's already at work. right? but this dovetails with with a, there parts of the contact stripe. i went back to, to, you know, some of the old news back in december and january benjamin netanyahu

a french and threatened to level b realty said we will turn a root into another, gaza. so that also aligns with this kind of, you know, this, that instilling of fear they're telling has the law be very careful. do not do not escalate with us. do not provoke us, allow us to do what we want to do, which is returned the residence to a, to the north right after their, to their homes and in the north. so it's that it's, it's a message to, to, has below, and also to the other actors in the region. but i do think there's another component here that we have to consider. right? and, and we don't know as, as a new, we're saying we don't, we don't know exactly what's, what's going to come next. but this could be a precursor to something more significant to a large scale attack on, on test, blah, on level 9. right? it strikes me and i'm not a military or security expert per se, but it strikes me that one of the things you would want to do if you are attacking an, an enemy is disrupt their communications infrastructure. and that seems to be what

has happened here, who will be very difficult, 1st of all, for his blog to communicate in the field right now. and so even organizing a response might be more difficult for his belie, don't wanna over exaggerate. i understand that they have other means of communication, but this is certainly a blow they clearly hadn't relying on this page or system. and now they obviously can not do that anymore. so it's unclear as i listen to what you say, whether this could signal that there is going to be less for in the sense is really, is establishing the parents so that it doesn't have to go into a full blown war against has full law or whether this could signal that there's going to be more or more because what this actually was was, is real softening up its enemy before a bigger attack. yeah. except that the, the turns policy usually doesn't work the way that is real, wants that toward, if it had worked for all these decades. right. and then is there a wouldn't still be at war with all of these enemies in, in, in the region, right?

but here we are, um, you know, all these years later and there are still these ongoing, ongoing wars that haven't been able to solve the issue with the palestinians. obviously the conflict with, with, with a has the law as well and other actors in the region. so i don't want to be pessimistic 0, but i don't think that we are at the end of a war period right now. and i don't even think that we're at the end of the war on gaza either. yeah, it's certainly doesn't feel like anything's ending mom in last week. thank you so much for joining us. thanks for your time. and thanks for calling. clark is the director of research of this to find center. he joins us live from laurel maryland . i'm calling, what is your take on everything that's happened? everything that's transpired over the last 3 hours. 2750 people have been injured in 11 known as their pagers exploded symbol tenuously across the country. thanks for having me. uh, the 1st thing i thought of was

a similar to the killing of smell any and t wrong that this was another effort by the massage. if that's who was behind this. and i think it's highly likely. i think most people would agree about re establishing the massage brand if you will. frank . this is an intelligence agency. the movies are made of right. there's a kind of hollywood element. and after october 7th, the brand was damaged significantly. this vaunted kind of the big wood as all knowing intelligence agency proved to be vulnerable. and i think what we're seeing now is massage and other aspects of this really kind of national security apparatus, military intelligence and other agencies and institutions basically saying no, we're back uh, you know, that was a kind of one time slip up and we can still reach anywhere throughout the middle east until our capture and when we want to. so israel has signal that it's expanding is war goals,

and it wants is released to be able to return to their homes in the north. now just as a little aside for viewers who don't know this will remember this, the entire border area between israel and 11 on has become essentially unlivable for tens of thousands of people on both sides of that border is relays and lebanese . and for the better part of the year now is really haven't been able to return to their homes now is real, is making that or says it is making that a priority. can they do that without a much more significant military effort against has blah in a word? no. and attempting to tie this to the conflict and gaza of, uh, you know, netanyahu and, and his inner circle are going to be accused of kind of moving the goal posts, so to speak. and i think, you know, this is, you know, what objective that's likely going to for their pro long, the conflict. and i think, you know, what we saw today with the pages exploding could very well be a prelude to a broader conflict in the middle east and, and i think myself,

many other analysts have worn uh, you know, from day one that the fight against hospital in the north is going to look totally different than what these realize have encountered. and so let's be honest, they've struggled to deal with some us as well. there's a completely different level, it's a different gosh, a lot of fighting capability of. busy per pound, it's probably the most sophisticated non see doctor in the world. and so it's gonna look totally different. you're waiting a multi front campaign then, and this is going to put an intensive pressure on these rollers. so you mentioned brought a conflict in the middle east. i've had a number of guests who've told me that, you know, don't just today, but really throughout this war, the benjamin net, you know, wants to broaden the war. he wants to drag the us into war against has bull on ultimately against the rock. do you, do you believe that? do you subscribe to that? i do. i do. frankly, i think you know, that yahoo has been about himself from the very beginning of this conflict. and i

don't think he's put israel's best interest from center last thursday. and friday is the fonts that are convene a global summit on terrorism, a little violence right down a ground, 0 in new york city and has what came up a lot. i can tell you, we had dexter film can speaking there about his recent reporting on has blood. and the smart money is that these both sides are moving an engine closer toward the conflict. and we're likely to see one sooner rather than later. and so you have people in the counter chairs and community, the solutions calling, sorry to jump in, but one of the comp, calculations then on both sides. because i've heard this for months to both sides. you know, they're interesting towards it publicly has the law says it does not want to war. the reporting from our corresponded on the ground is level known as already on its needs, right? going through multiple crises, can't really afford a war. hezbollah knows this house on this route and knows this, so he does not want to drag the country into a war. so what's the calculation on both sides, whether it's has below or israel,

of, of, you know, how they would benefit from as well. you're right. and i don't think this would benefit as well in any way, but the only thing worse for hezbollah would be to appear completely weak. right? that's a currency strains, the power, weekends, all these, uh, currencies that in the middle east. the way that actors respond to things on the as rarely side, they think that they can kind of, uh, you know, significantly damage use this as an opportunity to severely limit has those capabilities. but again, it's a group with a $150000.00 rockets and, and, and drones at his disposal. this would be a total nightmare for the region. and i'm not sure the, as well as would be able to do the damage. that's it, that they believe that they can do. do you think israel has a window right now uh, because of the us presidential campaign. that a window that they could exploit to perhaps do things that they couldn't do when you have a sitting president, you know, who has, who has all his,

all his labors of influence at his disposal, which is not the case right now for job. i certainly could be the perception and telling me you've been jerusalem, that you know, we're in this kind of clause, i lamed up period. and that if the is really is you're going to move, they should do it now before november. so that very much couldn't be the calculation and you know what they may be, right? you know, you may see some kind of muted or info here at us response at 1st. i think you know, if anybody wants more in the middle east, less than has bowl, it's probably the united states. but here's the us kind of call in this situation, attempting to aid its allies, is real. reinstalled. re establish deterrence against hezbollah and other actors in the region, but really kind of struggling to do so by calling clark. thank you very much for joining us as calling clark director of research at this funds center. thanks for your time. i. in the spring analysis here is more wanting to show our senior political analyst joining us from paris, more one,

as we try to bring all of this together, we've have 34 hours to analyze what's going on. now to try and understand it, what it means and where it might be taking us. how are you looking at this right now? yeah, we guys told me that 4 weeks or 4 months, really. because as you can use organization, we have correspond immediately in the industry as well, but really to digest and to transform those fairly perceptions into deeper and more meaningful conceptions of security of war over escalation of cyber attacks that are and so on, so forth. i think it's going to take us much longer to be able to really digest and conceptualize all of it. but again, from a very, fairly, an initial reaction analysis of what you're seeing is that is that is escalating.