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09/19/2024September 19, 2024
Japanese firm: Radio ‘discontinued 10 years ago’
Japanese firm Icom has issued a statement about the devices used in an attack on fighters. Walkie-talkies used by the militant group . At least 20 people were killed and 450 were injured in the second attack.
“The IC-V82 is a handheld radio that was produced and exported, including to the Middle East, from 2004 to October 2014. It was discontinued about 10 years ago, and since then, it has not been shipped from our company,” Icom said.
“The production of the batteries needed to operate the main unit has also been discontinued, and a hologram seal to distinguish counterfeit products was not attached, so it is not possible to confirm whether the product shipped from our company,” it said.
Icom added that all of its radios are made in Japan, and its export program is based on strict Japanese security and trade control regulations, adding to the questions of how the devices could have been tampered with.
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Attack ‘must be state-sponsored’: expert tells DW
Melinda Haas, a professor of international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, told DW that there was no question .
“The assumption that this is a state-sponsored operation must be correct, given both the geographic extent, the technical sophistication and the orchestration of the explosions themselves, much less the sort of on-the-ground intelligence required to infiltrate multiple types of devices that that Hezbollah agents are using,” Haas said.
Describing the attack as “unprecedented” but not surprising, she added, “The orchestration is meant to send a message: that its sponsor, probably Israel, is able to reach into Hezbollah’s organization, no matter what types of low tech devices are being used, and get to those people even on the ground.”
has yet to comment on either or the walkie-talkie attack.
The White House has warned Israel and Hezbollah against continued escalation of tensions.
es/sms (AP, AFP, dpa, Reuters)
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