Lebanon FM says pager blasts an omen of wider war

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini meets with Lebanon’s caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib in Beirut, on Sept. 17, 2024. (Reuters)

• Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib warned of the incident’s gravity

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s top diplomat on Wednesday said the deadly explosion of hundreds of Hezbollah members’ pagers could be an omen of a wider conflict in the Middle East.
According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib warned of the incident’s gravity, “because it comes after Israeli threats to expand the focus of the war with Lebanon, which would plunge the region into a larger cycle of violence, and signal a wider war.”