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.

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