The attacks on the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, involving exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, killed at least 37 people and injured nearly 3,500. A top Hezbollah commander was killed in an airstrike by Israel on Beirut's southern suburbs on September 20. Georges Saghir, a political and military strategic analyst and former brigadier general in the Lebanese Army, shared his view on this series of attacks. "It's hard for Israel to do it by itself," he said. "Israel, I think, has been helped by the United States to do that."