Hezbollah: Pagers detonate throughout Lebanon in an assault directed at members of Hezbollah.

 At least nine Hezbollah militia members have died and thousands more have been injured in simultaneous explosions in Syria and Lebanon that were caused by electronic pagers. The majority of the explosions happened in Lebanon's capital city of Beirut's southern suburbs. More explosions were reported in Damascus, the capital of Syria and home to many Hezbollah members. Controlling southern Lebanon, Hezbollah has been trading rocket fire with Israel across the border for almost a year in support of Hamas, another group supported by Iran and engaged in its own conflict with Israel. 

This renewed confrontation between Israel and militias supported by Iran in the Middle East began on October 7, when Hamas invaded Israel, killing 1,200 people and capturing 251 hostages inside Gaza, the Palestinian enclave under Hamas' control.

Hezbollah started firing into northern Israel a day after Israel started its aerial and later ground assault on the Gaza Strip, which has killed over 41,000 Palestinians since, according to the regional health ministry. They have promised to keep firing rockets until Israel's war in Gaza is over.

September 17, BEIRUT (Reuters) - After accusing Israel of setting off pagers throughout Lebanon on Tuesday, which resulted in the deaths of at least eight people and the injuries of nearly 3,000 others, including fighters and Iran's envoy to Beirut, the militant group Hezbollah vowed to exact revenge on the Israeli government.
The late afternoon explosion of the pagers, which are portable communication devices used by 

Hezbollah claims that Israel's war has exposed the greatest security lapse.
According to the group, among those slain were Hezbollah fighters.

In an attempt to evade Israeli detection, pagers are used.

The Israeli government and military have not commented.

Iran's envoy to Lebanon is allegedly hurt.

Hezbollah and other groups in Lebanon, was denounced as "Israeli aggression" by Ziad Makary, the minister of information in Lebanon. Israel would get "its fair punishment" for the explosions, according to Hezbollah.

Since the beginning of the Gaza war in October, the Israeli military has been fighting Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, across international borders. When questioned about the detonations, the military declined to comment.
According to Firass Abiad, the health minister of Lebanon, the pager explosions resulted in 2,750 injuries, 200 of which were critical, and eight fatalities.
In a previous statement, Hezbollah confirmed that a young girl and at least two of its fighters had died.

The pager blasts were described as a "escalation" that will only result in Israel's "failure and defeat" by Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that is at war with Israel in Gaza.
It's too early to tell how the pager attacks in Lebanon might affect efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, according to the U.S. State Department.
It begged Iran, which has formed a "Axis of Resistance" against Israeli and US influence with its allies Hezbollah, the Houthis of Yemen, and armed groups in Iraq, not to use any incident to sow discord.

An Israeli military spokesman stated that the chief of staff, Major General Herzi Halevi, met with senior officers on Tuesday evening to assess the situation, without specifically commenting on the explosions in Lebanon.

  "One, two, or three individuals are not the target of this security breach. As he offered his condolences for Ammar's son, senior Hezbollah official Hussein Khalil stated, "This is a targeting of an entire nation."

Ammar was mentioned by Lebanese broadcaster Al Jadeed as a promising outcome. "We will deal with the enemy in the language it understands," he stated.

The explosions on Tuesday increased the heavy price Hezbollah has paid over the last 12 months. More than 400 fighters have been lost by the group in Israeli strikes, including Fuad Shukr, the group's top commander, in July. Two more Hezbollah fighters were slain in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, according to Lebanese security sources.