News - Middle East: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed responsibility for personally ordering detonation of thousands of communication devices across Lebanon that killed and injured thousands of people in September.

Omer Dostri, spokesperson for the premier’s office, cited him as making the remarks on Monday, ending draw-out efforts by the regime and its allies to distance it from the murderous atrocity.

At least 39 people, including two children, were killed and more than 3,400 others suffered mostly debilitating injuries throughout the country after explosives planted in advance in numerous pager and walkie-talkie devices were set off on September 18 and 19.

The casualties included many members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement.

The blasts maimed many of the victims, afflicting them with eye and limb injuries. The injuries that ranged from missing limbs to gaping abdominal wounds and other lesions occurred after the devices beeped indicating incoming messages.

Beirut has denounced the attacks for being "unprecedented in its brutality."

On Wednesday, Lebanon’s Labour Minister Mustafa Bayram said that his country had filed an official complaint with the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) over the explosions.

The atrocity came as part of the Israeli regime’s escalated deadly aggression against the country that has killed at least 3,136 Lebanese people since its onset last October.

The victims include Hezbollah’s former secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and several other high-profile figures in the movement.

Hezbollah has been retaliating by staging hundreds of defensive operations against the occupied Palestinian territories.

The group has vowed to sustain its strikes until the regime keeps up the aggression.

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