Second wave of blasts across Lebanon rocks Hezbollah: All you need to know

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, in a speech about the situation in the North, explicitly complimented the Mossad, along with the entire defense establishment, for "great achievements" just as the region continued to convulse with news of devices exploding across Lebanon.

Radios manufactured by Japanese firm ICOM reportedly were among the devices exploding in Lebanon on Wednesday, according to reports first shared with The Jerusalem Post by Bernie News and then confirmed by New York Times journalist Christiaan Triebert over social media. 

Additional Hezbollah beepers exploded in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, according to a Kan report. 

This comes after thousands of Hezbollah members were wounded on Tuesday after the pagers they used to communicate detonated on Tuesday. 

This is a developing story. 

Lebanese media reported another round of explosions throughout the country midday on Wednesday.

Initial vague reports of networked devices exploding came in from Beirut, the Bekaa Valley, and throughout Lebanon.

19 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members were killed after their pagers had exploded in Deir ez-Zur in eastern Syria, Saudi news source Al-Hadath reported Wednesday afternoon.

An additional 150 IRCG members were also wounded in the explosions, Army Radio reported, citing the Saudi news source.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called Tuesday's pager attack on Hezbollah terrorists "an act of hybrid warfare" against Lebanon that was meant to provoke war in the Middle East, Reuters reported Wednesday. 

Russia followed up by saying that the attack wounded thousands of innocent people. 

Reflecting on the pager attack that reportedly killed around nine and wounded thousands of Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar exposed the extent of the damage in its editorial, calling it one of the most severe blows dealt to the terror organization since it began launching attacks on Israel last October.

“In just one minute, the enemy managed to deliver the harshest blow to Islamic resistance since the onset of the conflict,” the article stated, adding it was “an exceptional security operation in terms of the ability to reach targets and means, and in demonstrating elements of Israeli technological and intelligence superiority."

The article detailed the damage, stating the operation “led to the injury of more than three thousand resistance fighters and civilians from Hezbollah units, who were crowded in hospitals in the south, the Bekaa, Beirut, and the suburbs.”

Lebanon's Hezbollah chief, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, will give a speech on Thursday, the group said in a statement on Wednesday.

The speech follows the pager detonations across Lebanon on Tuesday that killed nine people and injured around three thousand.

A joint Mossad and IDF intelligence operation led to planting small explosive materials in Hezbollah's beepers, a variety of foreign media have reported, with the Jerusalem Post (which also has extensive Western sources) independently confirming significant details relating to the operation.

Reuters, the New York Times, CNN, Al-Monitor, Axios, and others have put together a picture in which Israel had to use the boobytrapped beepers already on Tuesday or lose the capability since portions of Hezbollah had started to discover the sabotage.

Reports say that Israel hid explosive material within a new batch of Taiwanese-made pagers imported into Lebanon. However, the Taiwanese company Gold Apollo denied making the devices, claiming the Hungarian company BAC manufactured the model using Gold Apollo's licensed brand name.