V #BBCNews Yolande Knell:
#Israel is reportedly now moving more of its forces to the northern border with #Lebanon . Def min Gallant said "the centre of gravity" was moving north.

Hassan #Nasrallah - the head of Hezbollah - due to speak at 15:00 BST.
His Iran-backed armed group, #Hezbollah has been hurt and humiliated by the extraordinary attacks on its communications network - and has vowed "just punishment".

V #BBC Shaimaa Khalil:
The Japanese firm which apparently makes the walkie-talkies says production on that model stopped 10 years ago.

Icom describes the IC-V82 as a handheld radio which was exported to the Middle East from 2004 to 2014 and has not been shipped since then. The manufacturing of the batteries has also stopped, it says.

The company says it isn't possible to confirm whether the IC-V82s that exploded in yesterday's attacks were shipped directly from Icom, or via a distributor.

V #BBCNews Tom Bateman:
Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the US was "still gathering the information" about the exploding pagers.

But behind the scenes, there will be another scramble in Washington to help protect Israel, this time from a potential response from Hezbollah.

Nevertheless, there is again a barely concealed sense of exasperation at the chance the attacks could amount to a significant miscalculation.