A series of explosive pager blasts in Lebanon killed at least nine people and injured nearly 3,000. The coordinated attack was part of an Israeli operation targeting Hezbollah members. The pagers were made by a Hungarian shell company and imported from Taiwan.

Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5,000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters.

Since the onset of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah on October, 8 Beirut has been hit three times. The escalation began when Hezbollah launched