Thousands of Hezbollah terrorists were injured in southern Lebanon on Tuesday when their new pagers all simultaneously exploded — causing horrifying wounds to their groins and hands as the devices detonated on their belts and in their pockets.  Lebanese officials said 2,800 people were injured and nine killed in what Hezbollah officials claimed was an attack by Israel.

NY Post (h/t Nita) Hezbollah — a Lebanese militant group that the US has designated as a terrorist organization — confirmed the wide-ranging attack on its operatives, including fighters and medics. One official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, called it the “biggest security breach” since the group began its near-daily attacks on Israel on Oct. 8.

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The devices that detonated were all the latest models acquired by Hezbollah in recent months. They were distributed to members after Hezbollah’s leader warned his fighters not to carry cell phones — telling them they could be used to track their movements or carry out targeted strikes.

The Israeli spy agency Mossad allegedly intercepted the shipment five months ago and rigged them with pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a highly explosive material, sources told Sky News Arabia, according to a translation from Israeli media.

The explosive material was allegedly placed inside the pagers’ batteries and  detonated by an external command that caused the batteries’ temperatures to overheat and trigger the explosion, the sources added.

Videos uploaded to social media show several incidents in which seemingly unaware men had devices in their pockets blow up, with the victims crying in pain as bystanders ran away.

One such video shows a man shopping at a local grocery store when an explosion occurs in his pocket, sending debris flying out of his pants as he falls to the floor. Other videos circulating on social media show dozens of men in hospitals covered in burn wounds, with one man with his fingers blown off and another covering his bloody face.

Several of the men caught by the blasts could be seen covering their groins and thighs, which were likely wounded when the pagers went off in their pants.

How Israel could have pulled off the ballsy pager attack on thousands of Hezbollah terrorists at once.

NY Post The stunning, simultaneous attack on thousands of Hezbollah terrorists by detonating their pagers had all the hallmarks of a highly complex covert operation — the kind that only Israel’s Mossad would have the means and motive to pull off, experts told The Post.

“This reeks of a planned IED event,” fire investigation expert and Jensen Hughes senior engineer Jerry Back told The Post on Tuesday.

“The fact that you had multiple events all occurring at the same time, it sounds to me like there were little explosive devices that were built into the equipment, that somebody was trying to light a lot of fires at once, and it had to be that somebody tapped into the manufacturing process,” he said.

The most likely scenario suggests that perpetrators tampered with the shipment either en route to its destination – or by an Israeli sympathizer hiding among Hezbollah’s ranks – due to the devices coming from the same source.

An unnamed insider told Sky News Arabia that Mossad intercepted Hezbollah’s communication devices before they were handed over to the terrorist group, slipping in the highly powerful Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) plastic explosive commonly used for military and demolition purposes.

“Mossad placed PETN explosives on the batteries, which were detonated by increasing the temperature,” the source told the outlet.