Hezbollah leader vows to retaliate against Israel over pager detonations

As Hassan Nasrallah spoke in a televised speech from an unknown location, Hezbollah and the Israeli military traded new strikes over the border

People watch the speech of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as they sit in a cafe in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Thursday (Hassan Ammar/AP)

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said Israel targeted thousands of pagers and detonated them at the same time, crossing a “red line”.

Hassan Nasrallah said the group has formed committees to investigate how this attack over two days that wounded thousands happened. Nasrallah added that Hezbollah was subjected to an unprecedented blow.