Sky News host Sharri Markson lauds the “genius intelligence operation” that targeted terrorists by “detonating their personal pagers”.

Overnight, several people were killed and 4,000 were wounded after handheld pagers belonging to Hezbollah members exploded.

“It doesn't get more sophisticated and surprising than this," Ms Markson said.

“The terrorists could never have seen this coming. The very devices they were using to avoid detection were ultimately ticking time bombs.”