Iran accuses Israel of ‘mass murder’ after detonation of Hezbollah pagers

Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Saida on September 17, 2024. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Saida on September 17, 2024. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

Iran accuses Israel of “mass murder” after paging devices belonging to the Tehran-aligned Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon exploded, killing at least nine people and wounding nearly 3,000.

Foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani says in a statement he “condemned the terrorist act of the Zionist regime… as an example of mass murder.”

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