The action by the Qatar Airways follows walkie-talkies and pager explosions in Lebanon that resulted in devastating consequences. The death toll from Wednesday's blasts in Lebanon rose to 25, the country's health minister Firass Abiad said on Thursday during a press conference.

Lebanese authorities on Thursday banned walkie-talkies and pagers from being taken on flights from Beirut airport, the National News Agency reported, after thousands of such devices exploded during a deadly attack on Hezbollah this week.

A debate has broken out in the U.S. over whether the attacks on Hezbollah members' pagers and walkie-talkies violate international law, and here is what we know so far. Two consecutive attacks on Hezbollah using exploding pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon and Syria killed at least 12 people,