Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, is among the injured, according to Iran’s Mehr news agency. The affected pagers were from a new shipment that the group received in recent days, sources told the Wall Street Journal.

In a scene right from the sci-fi movie, thousands of pagers used allegedly by US-designated terror group Hezbollah members for communication exploded unexpectedly in a cyberattack allegedly conducted by Israel.

Meeting with a senior Biden administration adviser, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said “the only way” for Israel to return its displaced citizens to the northern border is through military action against Hezbollah.

Hochstein met earlier with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials to seek a diplomatic solution to the Israel-Lebanon border conflict. During his meeting with Gallant, Hochstein cautioned that a major Israeli offensive against Hezbollah could escalate into a prolonged regional war and would not necessarily lead to the return of the evacuated residents,

The window for a diplomatic solution in the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia in the northern Israeli border region is closing, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in a statement issued on Monday.