The immediate context for the attacks is the “low-intensity war” between Israel and Hezbollah since October 7, with the cycle of violence triggered by Hamas’s mass killings inside Israel and then the Israeli military operations killing more than 41,000 people in Gaza.

Photos and videos from Beirut's southern suburbs circulating on social media and in local media showed people lying on the pavement with wounds on their hands or near their pants pockets.

Iran threatened to retaliate after its ambassador was wounded in a wave of explosions that targeted pagers and other wireless devices in Lebanon, fanning fears of a new wave of tit-for-tat violence in the Middle East.

Mojtaba Amani, Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, suffered severe injuries, including the loss of an eye, after a pager exploded in his face during a deadly attack in Lebanon. DAILY POST reported that hand-held radios and pagers used by Hezbollah militants detonated across southern Lebanon.

Iran is outraged over the injury of its ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, during an explosion involving Hezbollah pagers, demanding international condemnation of Israel.

By bne Gulf bureau Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Goncharenko has called for Ukraine to strike Iran following a series of explosions affecting electronic devices in Lebanon, according to a statement posted on his Telegram channel.