DUBAI, UAE - Lebanese Hezbollah has accused Israel of orchestrating a series of explosions targeting wireless communication devices in Beirut and surrounding areas, which left hundreds injured, the group’s media office told The New Region.

“We have no doubt that Israel is behind the explosion of the communication devices; we are certain of it,” Hezbollah’s media office said in an exclusive statement to The New Region. “The response is inevitable, whether they expect it or not.”

Hezbollah stated that its specialized units are conducting “a wide-scale security and scientific investigation to determine the cause of these simultaneous explosions,” while medical teams treat the injured at hospitals across Lebanon.

The explosions, which took place in multiple Lebanese areas, primarily affected Hezbollah members. The group confirmed the death of a child and two brothers, along with dozens of injuries. 

According to Iranian news agency Mehr, Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was also injured in one of the blasts. Security sources told Reuters that more than 1,200 people had been injured.

Videos and images circulating on social media showed young men lying injured on the streets amid widespread panic caused by the explosions. The blasts appeared to have targeted portable communication devices (pagers) used by Hezbollah members.

Reports of injuries emerged from Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Bekaa Valley, and southern Lebanon, though conflicting accounts put the number of casualties in the hundreds. Lebanese security sources suggested the explosions might have been triggered by an Israeli breach of the devices' batteries.

The official Lebanese National News Agency described the event as an "unprecedented hostile security incident" affecting several regions, including Beirut's southern suburbs. Emergency services rushed dozens of injured individuals to nearby hospitals after what the agency described as "a high-tech method used to detonate handheld pager systems."

Hezbollah instructed its members to avoid using mobile phones to prevent further breaches, replacing them with an internal communication system.

According to the Lebanese minister of health, eight people died and over 2000 were wounded, many of whom are in critical condition. These attacks, believed to have been triggered by compromised communication devices, prompted the Lebanese Ministry of Health to issue an urgent warning for citizens to discard pagers.

Speaking to The New Region, Tofiq Shawqi, who rushed to donate blood, described the overcrowded hospitals:

“There are a lot of people inside, and a lot of people have come to donate blood, but now they need O positive and O negative more than anything as there are a lot of people still being brought to the hospital,” he said.

The incident has raised questions about the security of pager devices, once considered revolutionary in the 1990s but still in use in areas with poor mobile coverage or by medical professionals.