SpaceWar.com reports: “Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday that Israel crossed ‘all the red lines’ by detonating thousands of communication devices used by his group’s members, with the intention to kill some 5,000 of them within two minutes.

He described the attack as a ‘big, unprecedented and harsh security strike’ against his Iran-backed militant group.

Nasrallah, in a televised speech, said the attacks that Israel carried out Tuesday and Wednesday targeting pagers and walkie-talkies recently distributed to thousands of Hezbollah members were meant to pressure Lebanon and Hezbollah to stop the fighting along the southern border to secure the return of some 80,000 displaced settlers to northern Israel.

‘The Lebanese front will not stop before the aggression on Gaza comes to an end,’ he pledged, while Israeli warplanes flew at low altitudes over Beirut, breaking the sound barrier.

According to a new count by Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abid on Thursday, 35 people, including two children, were killed and nearly 3,000 were wounded in the pager and walkie-talkie explosions that hit various Lebanese regions, particularly Hezbollah’s stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut, as well as southern and eastern Lebanon…”