Human Rights Watch said that the bombing of wireless communication devices in Lebanon puts the lives of civilians at grave risk and violates the laws of war.

"Thousands of pagers and other electronic devices (ICOM) exploded in areas of Lebanon (Wednesday), killing at least 21 people and injuring thousands," the rights group added in a statement on the X platform on Wednesday evening.

She stressed that "the use of everyday civilian objects as explosive devices puts the lives of civilians at grave risk and violates the laws of war."

For her part, the organization's Middle East and North Africa Director, Lama Fakih, said, "Customary international humanitarian law prohibits the use of explosive traps, in order to avoid exposing the lives of civilians to grave danger and causing the scenes that are still unfolding today throughout Lebanon."

According to a statement carried by the organization's website, it called for "an immediate and impartial investigation into this attack."

On Wednesday evening, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that the death toll from the explosion of Icom radio equipment in several areas of Lebanon had risen to 20 dead and more than 450 injured.

The Lebanese Ministry of Communications had previously announced that the wireless devices that exploded on Wednesday in a number of areas were not licensed and were not approved by the security services.

Regarding Tuesday's bombings, the organization said that they killed 12 people, including at least two children and two relief workers, and injured more than 2,800.

She noted that "the circulating videos reviewed by Human Rights Watch show adults and children in emergency rooms with head, chest and limb injuries."

On Tuesday, 12 people were killed and about 2,800 others were injured, including 300 in critical condition, in an attack that caused the explosion of thousands of other devices called "pagers" used by Hezbollah in particular for communications, according to the latest figures from the Lebanese Ministry of Health on Wednesday.

This brings the death toll and injuries associated with the Pager and Icom radio explosions to 32 dead and more than 3,250 injured, including 300 in critical condition, on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Health.

Tel Aviv met this with official silence, and the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disavowed, in a statement, a post by his advisor, Topaz Luke, on the “X” platform, in which he hinted at Tel Aviv’s responsibility for the attack before deleting it.

Since October 8, Lebanese and Palestinian factions in Lebanon, most notably Hezbollah, have been exchanging daily shelling with the Israeli army across the “Blue Line,” which has resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries, most of them on the Lebanese side.

These factions demand an end to the war waged by Israel with American support on the Gaza Strip since October 7, which has left more than 136,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and deadly famine.