Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Note from L’Orient Today editor – Olivia Le PoidevinTerror came to the streets of Lebanon for a second day, yesterday. Just as the country was coming to terms with the bloodied scenes they witnessed on Tuesday, a second round of explosions of Hezbollah's communications devices rocked the capital and multiple districts of the country. All fingers point at Israel's spy agency, Mossad. But it also has transnational implications: From Taiwan to Hungary to Japan – analysts are racing to understand how, where and at what point the pager and walkie-talkie devices were tampered with. The message Israel is trying to achieve is that nowhere is safe. It's fair to say we do not know what awaits us today. In the meantime, questions are...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Note from L’Orient Today editor – Olivia Le PoidevinTerror came to the streets of Lebanon for a second day, yesterday. Just as the country was coming to terms with the bloodied scenes they witnessed on Tuesday, a second round of explosions of Hezbollah's communications devices rocked the capital and multiple districts of the country. All fingers point at Israel's spy agency, Mossad. But it also has transnational implications: From Taiwan to Hungary to Japan – analysts are racing to understand how, where and at what point the pager and walkie-talkie devices were tampered with. The message Israel is trying to achieve is that nowhere is safe. It's fair to say we do not know what awaits us today. In the meantime, questions...