Israel has been blamed for a targeted attack on Hezbollah members, using tiny amounts of explosives to detonate thousands of pagers, killing at least nine people and injuring thousands.
Nearly 3,000 people are believed to have been injured in the coordinated remote attack, with 200 still in critical condition.Israel has issued no comment on the explosions but experts have said the pagers, which were imported into Lebanon earlier this year, must have been tampered with in a plot months in the making.The New York Times reported that Hezbollah's pagers were compromised in a joint operation between Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, and the IDF.
Read more: Nine people killed and almost 3,000 injured as Hezbollah vows retaliation after pagers explode in LebanonRead more: Ten years on from the Scottish independence referendum anything is possible in Scottish politics Footage shared on social media showed pagers blowing up in people's pockets, and other images showed wounded victims of the blasts.Iran's ambassador was also said to have been injured in the attack.
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