Russian’s foreign ministry on Wednesday said that a mass attack via exploding pagers widely used by the Hezbollah group in Lebanon was an “act of hybrid warfare” which could provoke a major war throughout the Middle East. A senior Lebanese security source said on Wednesday that Israel’s spy agency Mossad hid explosives inside 5,000 pagers while they were being manufactured, months before Tuesday's detonations which killed several people and injured thousands in Lebanon and Syria.