Taiwanese prosecutors announced Thursday that they have questioned four witnesses in the investigation into the Hezbollah pager explosion in Lebanon.
Taipei's Shilin District Prosecutor's Office said two of the witnesses were from Taipei-based company Gold, whose branding appeared on pagers purchased by Hezbollah, a Lebanese terrorist organization and political party that targets Israeli civilians. They announced that they are current and former employees of Apollo. Missiles have been launched in recent months.
Suddenly the pager started explode On September 17, bullets fell into the hands and pockets of Hezbollah operatives, killing at least 12 people and wounding around 3,000, including bystanders. The next day, a portable radio used by Hezbollah began exploding, killing dozens more.
Hezbollah's pager probably A product of Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese company specializing in old technology. Pagers are favored by Hezbollah and similar organizations because they cannot be monitored or tracked like cell phones.
Shortly after the pager exploded, Gold Apollo founder Hsu Ching-kuan said the device was not actually made by his company, but by a company called BAC Consulting based in Budapest, Hungary. , said the company paid a manufacturing license fee to Gold Apollo. A pager based on that technology. The Taiwanese government quickly backed Mr. Xu, saying Hezbollah's pagers were not made in Taiwan.
Mr Hsu said the contract with BAC Consulting was arranged by a mysterious woman named “Teresa”. Apparently Teresa Wu is the sole employee of a company called Apollo Systems Ltd, which she founded in April this year.
Little information has been made public about Wu's relationship with her company or BAC Consulting, and she appears unwilling to speak to reporters. Gold Apollo also declined requests for comment from reporters. Taipei prosecutors said last week that they had questioned both Mr. Xu and Mr. Wu.
It is not yet clear when Hezbollah's pagers were weaponized, how it was done, or exactly who did it. Israeli intelligence is widely suspected to be behind the explosion, but Israel has not officially claimed responsibility for either the pager or radio bombings.
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said Last week, he clarified that his government had met with the Israeli ambassador to express no concerns about the incident. Taiwan and Israel close allyand there was no public friction between the two sides over the Hezbollah bombing.
Israel rejected The Biden-Harris administration on Thursday pushed for a ceasefire in Lebanon. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said his government would continue to fight Hezbollah “with all our might until we win and the people of the north return safely to their homes.”
