(19 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerusalem, Mideast – 19 September 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Frankel, Associated Press:
"Israel appears to be preparing for a wider war with Hezbollah after a massive attack across Lebanon Tuesday and Wednesday set off explosions and pagers and other handheld devices that killed at least 30 people and wounded thousands. Now, war is not inevitable, and a lot depends on what Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says in his speech later today. But in recent days, Israel has shown a number of signs pointing to preparations for all out war."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Frankel, Associated Press:
"Israel has drawn its 98th division from Gaza to its northern border. Now, this division is responsible for some of the heaviest fighting in Gaza and includes commando units, paratrooper units, thousands of forces that specialized in operations behind enemy lines."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Frankel, Associated Press:
"Meanwhile, governments across the world are trying to figure out how these exploding walkie talkies and pagers even got into Lebanon in the first place. The company whose marker was on the pagers, Gold Apollo is a Taiwanese company, but it’s actually distanced itself from the claims and has said that the manufacturing of the pagers was handled by a Hungarian company. Meanwhile, a Japanese company whose marker was on the walkie talkies that exploded yesterday has said that the model is ten years out of date and was discontinued and could have been a counterfeit."
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STORYLINE:
Israel’s defense minister has declared the start of a “new phase” of the war as Israel turns its focus toward the northern front against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.
Two waves of explosive attacks hit Syria and Lebanon: an apparent Israeli attack targeting pagers used by Hezbollah that killed at least 12 and wounded nearly 3,000 on Tuesday, and exploding walkie-talkies and other electronics Wednesday across Lebanon that killed at least 20 people and injured 450 others.
"War is not inevitable, and a lot depends on what Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says in his speech later today, said The Associated Press reporter Julia Frankel. "But in recent days, Israel has shown a number of signs pointing to preparations for all-out war," she added.
The head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council promised the group would respond to Tuesday’s pager explosion attack with “special punishment.”
Hezbollah began striking Israel almost immediately after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that sparked the Israel-Hamas war.
Since then, Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged fire daily
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