From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisie, and this is the Daily.

Today, inside Israel's audacious and deadly plot to blow up thousands of electronic

devices across Lebanon. My colleague Patrick Kingsley on what it accomplished and at what cost.

It's Thursday, September 19th.

So, Patrick, So Patrick you've been reporting on these remarkable series of

attacks across Lebanon over the past two days. Tell me what happened.

Well at around 3.30 p.m. local time on Tuesday afternoon,

suddenly there were hundreds if not thousands of explosions across the country of Lebanon.

There was a man who seemed to blow up next to a fruit stool in a market. There was someone else who seemed to blow up in smoke at the checkout counter at a supermarket. And there was a man who was hit while he was on a motorcycle in heavy traffic.

And basically what had happened was that the pages of hundreds, if not thousands, of operatives from the Lebanese militia Hezbollah exploded almost all at once. It set off chaos across Lebanon in the capital Beirut in eastern Lebanon and southern

Lebanon. Hundreds of ambulances were called into action, ferrying people suddenly to hospitals.

The hospitals themselves were pandemonium.

There were people coming in blinded,

there were people coming in with maimed torsos, maimed groan areas,

wherever they had been holding their pages on their bodies.

There was a general sense of terror and fear spreading across Lebanese society as they realized

that an everyday item such as a pager was able to explode in public spaces like shops, markets and even traffic

jams.

Okay, so there was pandemonium throughout Lebanese society. What do we know about who was behind the attack?

We know from our teams reporting that the attack was mounted by some part of the Israeli military.

Israel is locked in a years long conflict with Hezbollah

that escalated after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th.

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