Hezbollah leader Nasrallah set to speak after pager attack

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00:00Hospitals across Lebanon have been overwhelmed with injured people, many injured in the eyes

00:04if they'd been handling devices that they showed early signs of exploding, or in the

00:10abdomen if they'd been attached to their belts or in their pockets.

00:13Let's hear from our reporter in Beirut.

00:15Wahad Taha sent us this from outside the American hospital in Beirut.

00:21I'm standing here in front of the American University of Beirut Medical Centre which

00:25has received a significant number of Hezbollah members who sustained injuries over the past

00:32two days since the Pagers attack occurred on Tuesday which resulted in more than 3,000

00:40injuries across Lebanon and since the walkie-talkie attack that occurred yesterday on Wednesday

00:48which also resulted in around 400 injuries across Lebanon.

00:53Now most of these injuries were in Beirut's southern suburbs, in the southern part of

00:58Lebanon and in the Bekaa Valley.

01:00What is common between all those areas is the fact that they are all Hezbollah stronghold areas.

01:05When it comes to what we are expecting over the next few hours, we're expecting to hear

01:11from Secretary General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah later this afternoon in what is

01:18going to be one of his most anticipated speeches.

01:21This was a major security breach for Hezbollah following the past year of this war of attrition

01:27with Israel where Israel was able to assassinate a significant number of Hezbollah top-ranking

01:33military commanders and field commanders as well in precision airstrikes.

01:38But something on this scale where telecommunication networks are intercepted or even tampered

01:44with by supposedly Israeli intelligence according to the story coming here from Lebanon is extraordinary.

01:50So we're waiting to see and hear from Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah

01:55later this afternoon.

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