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Sep 2024
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Deadly pager attacks leave Lebanon in sh...

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Lebanon is reeling after two days of coordinated attacks attributed to Israel that detonated thousands of pagers and devices used by Hezbollah members. The simultaneous explosions – in indiscriminate locations across the country – left deaths and thousands of injuries in their wake. Does this unprecedented attack signal a new reality?

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This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra, Marcos Bartolomé, Khaled Soltan, Sonia Bhagat, and Chloe K. Li, with Phillip Lanos, Hisham Abu Salah, Hagir Saleh, Shraddha Joshi, Duha Mosaad, Cole van Miltenburg, and our host Malika Bilal.

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