Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

Lebanon/Who manufactured the pagers?

Published on: 19 September, 2024
An ambulance drives in a southern suburb of Beirut on September 18, 2024, after multiple explosions were heard during the funeral of four Hezbollah fighters who were killed a day earlier when their handheld pagers exploded [Bilal Hussein/AP]

An ambulance drives in a southern suburb of Beirut on September 18, 2024, after multiple explosions were heard during the funeral of four Hezbollah fighters who were killed a day earlier when their handheld pagers exploded [Bilal Hussein/AP]

Taiwanese company Gold Apollo said on Wednesday that it authorised its brand on the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria in an apparent Israeli operation targeting Hezbollah’s communications network but that another company based in Budapest manufactured them.

Al Jazeera.