At least 12 people have been killed and thousands more injured after two waves of suspected Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon.

A pager or ‘beeper’ is a small, portable communication device that receives short messages, typically numeric or alphanumeric, over a radio frequency signal.

So far, the attacks that targeted Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah members through their pagers have had devastating consequences. At least nine people, including an eight-year-old girl,

Pagers, once a common communication tool before the rise of mobile phones, are small wireless devices used to receive short messages.

The long-forgotten communication device has recently resurfaced in the spotlight following a series of explosions that injured over a thousand people in Lebanon.

Hundreds of pagers carried by Hezbollah members blew up nearly simultaneously in an attack that tops a series of covert assassinations and cyber-attacks in the region.

A pager is a small, battery-operated radio receiver that set off an alert when it receives a proper signal and displays a numeric message, like a phone number, or a short text message.

At least a dozen people were killed and thousands more were left injured by the blasts on Tuesday targeting Hezbollah devices.

The pagers that exploded Tuesday featured branding by Taiwanese wireless device maker Gold Apollo, but were license-manufactured by a little-known Hungarian firm.

With a new era of terrifying warfare exploding into view, there are serious possibilities that Britain must consider.