At least nine people have died in Lebanon and 2,800 have been injured with 200 of them in critical condition by the simultaneous explosions of hundreds of buzzers used by Hezbollah.

Among the victims are two fighters of the pro-Iranian movement and a 9-year-old girl.

According to Lebanese media reports, one of the two fighters killed is the son of a Hezbollah member of parliament.

At the same time, new reports from Iranian media speak of another seven dead in Syria in the Seyedah Zeinab neighborhood of Damascus, a Shiite stronghold.

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Lebanon’s Information Minister Ziad Makari denied responsibility for the attack on Israel, saying that his country condemns “Israeli aggression” while adding that it has contacted the UN to “hold the perpetrator accountable.”

Ziad Makari is the first Lebanese official to directly accuse Israel.

And Hezbollah also blamed Israel, declaring it would receive its “just punishment.”

Hezbollah communications devices that exploded across Lebanon and Syria were the latest model the Islamist group has brought in in recent months, three security sources told Reuters.

Israel has yet to officially comment, although an aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted that Tel Aviv was behind the attack. The prime minister’s office was quick to distance itself from this remark.

A Reuters reporter saw ambulances rushing to the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut amid widespread panic. Residents reported that explosions were still occurring 30 minutes after the initial explosions.

Groups of people gathered at the entrance of buildings to see if people they knew were injured, the Reuters reporter said.

Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was among the wounded, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported.

The security source added that explosive devices were also detonating in southern Lebanon. There is currently no comment from the Israeli military, which has been exchanging fire with Hezbollah since October alongside the war in Gaza.

According to AFP, citing sources close to Hezbollah, dozens of members of the pro-Iranian Lebanese organization were injured when their sirens exploded simultaneously in various strongholds of the organization.

Earlier, a source close to Hezbollah told AFP that it was “Israeli hacking”.

“Dozens of Hezbollah members were injured in the southern suburbs of Beirut,” the Islamist group’s stronghold, and “in southern Lebanon from an explosion of their sirens,” said another source close to the party.

An AFP correspondent in the eastern Bekaa Valley, also a Hezbollah stronghold, also spoke of “dozens of wounded” when their blasters exploded in that area.

Many eyewitnesses saw ambulances carrying injured people to Beirut’s southern suburbs, where hospitals were begging for blood.

The national news agency ANI spoke of an “unprecedented security incident that occurred in the southern suburbs of Beirut as well as in many areas of Lebanon” attributing it to the Israeli “enemy”.

He added that “the buzzer system was hacked through high technology.”

Hezbollah had asked its members to stop using mobile phones to avoid Israeli hacking.

The powerful party implemented a buzzer system through which its members are called to report to their units.