Exploding pagers hit Hezbollah, 9 killed 

Nine people were killed, including a child, and 2,800 were wounded when pager devices belonging to Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon and parts of Syria.

Lebanon's minister of health said on Tuesday.

An American official said Israel briefed the United States on Tuesday after the conclusion of the operation, in which small amounts of explosive secreted in the pagers were detonated. 

The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the information publicly. The Israeli military declined to comment.

Among those wounded was Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon. 

The mysterious explosions came amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, which have exchanged fire across the Israel-Lebanon border since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that sparked the war in Gaza.