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A communications equipment explosion in Lebanon killed 9 people and wounded 2,750 others, and Hezbollah has threatened Israel.

Lebanese Health Minister Firas Al-Abyad announced the killing of 9 people, including a girl, and about 2,750 injured, most of them Hezbollah members, in southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut, following the wireless communication devices they were using. Exploded.

The Health Minister called on all hospitals to receive all the wounded. At the same time, the Lebanese Civil Defense said that hospitals in the south have exceeded their capacity and that we are working to transfer the injured out of the governorate.

Hezbollah said in a statement that "Israel is responsible" for the strike. The release continued: "We hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for the aggression that also affected civilians and led to several martyrs."

The party said: "The treacherous and criminal enemy will certainly receive its just punishment for this guilty aggression, whether it was calculated or not."

The statement stressed that "the relevant agencies of Hezbollah are conducting a wide-ranging security and scientific investigation to discover the cause of the simultaneous explosions."

The party recommended "being wary of rumors and misleading information that serve the psychological war in the interests of the Zionist enemy."

The coalition advocated "being wary of rumors and misleading information that serve the psychological war in the interests of the Zionist enemy."

Al Jazeera's correspondent cited sources confirming that hundreds of people were injured in the explosion of portable communication devices "pagers" in the possession of their owners in various regions of the country.

The journalist stressed that the sources confirmed that the son of the representative of the Hezbollah bloc, Ali Ammar, was seriously injured.

The Iranian embassy in Beirut announced that the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, suffered superficial injuries, stressing that he is in good health. Iran's Fars news agency reported that the ambassador had been transferred to the hospital earlier.

The New York Times reported that two bodyguards of the Iranian ambassador were injured in the explosion, while the Financial Times quoted an Iranian official as confirming that the Iranian ambassador's condition in Beirut was good and that no member of the diplomatic team was injured in the explosion.

In this context, ABC quoted a US official as confirming that more than 50 people were targeted in Syria in the same attack that occurred in Lebanon.

Syrian media reported that 11 Lebanese Hezbollah members present in the Damascus countryside were seriously injured following the explosion of wireless communication devices.

A security source told Al Jazeera that the explosion of the communication devices in Lebanon was caused by a hacking attack via wireless technology.

The security source explained that the explosion of the communication devices affected areas located in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Bekaa, and southern Lebanon.

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For his part, a Lebanese security source told Al Jazeera that the bombed communication devices were imported 5 months ago.

The security source added that the communication devices that exploded were pre-equipped with explosives, noting that the weight of the device that exploded did not exceed 20 grams of explosive materials.

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported that the communications equipment targeted in Lebanon were part of a fresh cargo received by Hezbollah.

The newspaper cited security firm Lubec International as saying that the cause of the communications devices' explosion was most likely malware. The company added that the cause of the explosion was software that raised the temperature of the batteries, causing them to explode or trigger a charge that detonated remotely.

Sources close to Hezbollah told The Associated Press that the new communications devices are equipped with lithium batteries and appear to have exploded from overheating.

Axios cited an informed source as saying that the communications devices were widely used among Hezbollah members, including senior officials.

The Washington Post cited a security research center as saying that what happened was the result of the largest-ever swap of imported communications devices with a shipment containing explosives.

Israeli Violation

For its part, the Associated Press quoted an unnamed Lebanese official as saying that the targeting of the communications devices is believed to be the result of an Israeli attack.

The Lebanese News Agency said: “The Israeli enemy penetrated the mobile pager devices and blew them up using high technology.” The agency explained that dozens of people were injured in an unprecedented event following the violation and explosion of mobile pager devices by their owners in various parts of the country.

Israel’s Channel 12 reported that a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had suggested that Israel was behind the explosion of the communications devices in Lebanon.

Later, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said that Netanyahu’s adviser deleted his tweet in which he indicated Israel’s responsibility for the Beirut attacks minutes after it was posted.

The former commander of Israeli military intelligence said that the person who carried out this operation wanted to send a message and had been planning this operation for some time.

A former senior official in Israel's Internal Security Service (Shin Bet) said that blowing up the communication devices of hundreds of Hezbollah members was an unprecedented breach of security and intelligence.

On the other hand, the Israel Broadcasting Authority said that the National Security Council is asking ministers to refrain from making statements regarding the events in Lebanon.

The commission said that the Likud party had banned its members from making statements and giving interviews about the events in Lebanon.

The authority added that the Home Front informed the heads of local authorities of the possibility of a security escalation without new instructions.

The Walla website reported that reserve soldiers were given order 8 for immediate recruitment and to be on alert in the alert rooms and army units.

As for Israel's Channel 14, it said that starting tonight, the security and military weight would shift from the Gaza Strip to the northern front. It raised the possibility that Israel would soon declare the northern front as the main war front.

Axios cited a source as saying that Israeli intelligence estimated before the operation that Hezbollah would likely respond with a major attack on Israel.

This comes as Israel Today reports that Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Galant, and senior security officials are currently meeting in the Defense Ministry's underground operations room.

Haaretz cited Israeli sources as saying that security services believed Hezbollah intended to launch a military operation against Israel.

The newspaper reported that senior security officials had been invited to attend an emergency meeting and present options for dealing with a possible escalation with Hezbollah.

It pointed out that Israeli security services have recently detected signs of unusual preparations by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

The newspaper "Israel Today" also quoted an Israeli security source as saying that intensive security consultations had taken place in recent hours about the possibility of a war against Hezbollah, and the sources indicated that intense tensions with the party were on the brink of the abyss.

Health Emergency

On the medical front, the Lebanese Minister of Health reported hundreds of wounded. The media reportedly quoted a Hezbollah source as claiming that "hospitals are asking for blood" because of the large number of injured. Another party source verified that the event was an "Israeli violation".

The Lebanese Ministry of Health has asked hospitals to mobilize and raise their level of preparedness to meet the urgent need for emergency services.

The ministry called on health workers to urgently go to hospitals. It called on citizens to go to hospitals to donate blood to the wounded.

Lebanese government sources reported that Prime Minister Najib Mikati had asked the Minister of Health to leave a government session and mobilize all the ministry's agencies to keep pace with the evolving situation.

It is noteworthy that Hezbollah had previously asked its members not to use mobile phones to avoid any Israeli violations and had instead developed its own communication system.