Welcome to the news hour. It was an unprecedented and shocking attack. All across Lebanon today,

pagers used by members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded. Lebanon's health ministry

says 2,700 people were injured and nine were killed, including a young

girl.

Hezbollah blamed Israel for the attack.

Israel has not made any public statement.

It comes as tensions between Israel and Lebanon

have been near boiling for almost a year since just after the October 7th

Hamas terror attacks on Israel.

Days later, Hezbollah stepped up fire into northern Israel.

The two sides have had near daily exchanges of artillery and rocket fire since forcing thousands

to flee.

Nick Schifrin is here with more.

So Nick, walk us through your reporting

and tell us more about what happened.

Jeff, experts I spoke to all day describe this attack as audacious,

never seen before anywhere in an almost unbelievable scale and you can really see that even

from the videos that immediately come out Lebanese Hezbollah members in markets going

about their days all of a sudden the pagers they're wearing on their belts you

see that in a market there or in their pockets or bags exploded.

Pagers in Syria exploded too and that led to 2,700 wounded.

As you said, hundreds of them serious,

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