Hundreds of electronic devices carried by Hezbollah members exploded simultaneously across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday in an audacious plot by Israel. Patrick Kingsley, the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times, discusses what the attack accomplished, and what it cost. Guest: Patrick Kingsley, the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times.
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From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the daily today inside Israel's audacious and deadly plot to blow up thousands of electronic devices across Lebanon, my colleague Patrick Kingsley on what it accomplished and at what cost.
Its Thursday, September 19.
So, Patrick, youve been reporting on these remarkable series of attacks across Lebanon over the past two days.
Tell me what happened.
Well, at around 03:30 p.m.
local time on Tuesday afternoon, suddenly there were hundreds, if not thousands, of explosions across the country of Lebanon.
There was a man who seemed to blow up next to a fruit stall in a market.
There was someone else who seemed to blow up in smoke at the checkout counter at a supermarket.
And there was a man who was hit while he was on a motorcycle in heavy traffic.
And basically what had happened was that the pages of hundreds, if not thousands, of operatives from the lebanese militia Hezbollah exploded almost all at once.
It set off chaos across Lebanon.
The capital, Beirut in eastern Lebanon.
In southern Lebanon, hundreds of ambulances were called into action, ferrying people suddenly to hospitals.