Lebanon. 3:00 PM. Thousands of pagers explode, blinding 500 Hezbollah members and allies. Among them is the Iranian ambassador. A simultaneous attack detonated thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah militants in Beirut, several other regions of Lebanon, and Damascus. Videos posted on social media show men calmly shopping at a market when something suddenly explodes around them. The pagers, recently issued to pro-Iranian Shiite militants to replace smartphones deemed unsafe, exploded all at once, causing chaos and terror, leaving at least 19 dead—including an 8-year-old girl and the son of a pro-Hezbollah MP—and 4,000 injured.
