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A thousand or more members of Hezbollah were reportedly injured when the pagers they use to communicate simultaneously exploded on Tuesday.
Lebanon’s state-run news agency said the blasts targeted people across Beirut.
A Hezbollah official told the National News Agency that it was the “biggest security breach yet” targeting the Iran-backed group, according to Reuters.
One of the blasts was caught on camera at a market.
BREAKING via Reuters
“Hundreds of members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, including fighters and medics, were seriously wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded.”
Here is one video of one of the pager explosions. pic.twitter.com/GIv39T26Ki
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Iranian Ambassador Lebanon Mojtaba Amani is among the injured, the Times of Israel reported.
Israel has been battling Hezbollah for months. It did not immediately take credit for the attacks.
But earlier in the day it said that halting Hezbollah’s attacks in the country’s north is now an official war goal, the Associated Press reported.
This is a developing story.
