Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday blamed Israel for mass explosions of pagers and other communication devices across Lebanon and noted that "the enemy has crossed all the red lines."
"The enemy targeted 4,000 pager devices, knowing that they were distributed among civilians, deliberately killing four thousand people in one minute," Nasrallah said in a televised speech. This act was a "massacre" and "deserves a response," he stated, adding that Israel's goal was to kill 5,000 people in blasts that happened on Tuesday and Wednesday. This act could be considered a "declaration of war," according to the Hezbollah chief.
He further said that Hezbollah will conduct its own investigation into companies involved in manufacturing and selling the pagers and into the distribution of exploded devices.
