The pagers of hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists exploded simultaneously across Lebanon on Tuesday morning, sending thousands to hospitals for "injuries to their waist and crotch areas," Axios reported.
The coordinated explosion was the terrorist group’s "biggest intelligence breach yet," Hezbollah security sources said. Though Israel has not commented on the incident it is widely assumed to have engineered the daring military and intelligence operation.
The cause of the explosion is still unknown. A Hezbollah official suspected that intentional software meddling caused the pagers to explode since hundreds of the terror operatives carried the communicative devices, the Wall Street Journal reported. The defective pagers were part of a shipment Hezbollah received recently.
The timing of the incident is telling. It occurred just a day after White House senior adviser Amos Hochstein arrived in Israel to meet with senior officials, including Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and urge them against starting a war with Hezbollah. In the wake of Oct. 7, Israel was forced to evacuate hundreds of thousands of its citizens from the North due to Hezbollah rocket attacks, and Israeli officials view that situation as unsustainable.
Videos captured and posted to social media show the pagers exploding in real time.
The attack killed at least 8 people and injured over 2,000, according to i24 News, including Iran's ambassador to Lebanon. Among the terrorists killed was the son of a Lebanese parliament member, Reuters reported.
Photos and videos from multiple locations in Lebanon on social media show people on the ground with injuries to their hands or near their pockets.