Al-Monitor's Gabrielle Debinski and Tyler Huffman report on why Israeli officials, choosing between three options, made a decision on Tuesday to detonate pagers used by Hezbollah operatives. The pager attacks killed at least 12 people, including two children, and left around 2,800 others injured. On Wednesday more explosions followed as hand-held radios detonated, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 450, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry.

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Israel is suspected of being behind a large-scale attack on pagers used by Hezbollah members that exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday, Ali Hashem, a contributor in the region gives us the regional first reaction and mood on the ground.

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In Washington, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called Monday for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a Gaza truce deal while Israel's defense minister, Yoav Gallant, met with US envoy Amos Hochstein. Gallant warned that the possibility for an agreement with Hezbollah is becoming less likely as the group "continues to tie itself" to Hamas.

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