Accounts on X published a design that mimicked the design of Al-Araby channel, claiming that the Chief of Staff of the Israeli army announced the surrender of 2,800 Hezbollah members. The claim included the following text: “Chief of Staff of the Israeli army: The surrender of 2,800 Hezbollah fighters, who are under the control of the Israeli Defense Forces”.
Kashif verified the design and found that it is fake, and that the statement it contains is plagiaristic. Kashif’s team searched the official website of Al Arabiya channel and its official pages on social media platforms, and did not find any mention of this statement.
Upon examining the circulated design attributed to Al-Araby, Kashif noticed that the type of font used was completely different from the type of font used by Al-Araby pages.
Kashif’s team also searched the latest statements of the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Occupation Army, Herzi Halevi, and did not find any mention of information about the surrender of 2,800 Hezbollah members and the occupation army’s control over them.
The latest statement by the Chief of Staff of the Occupation Army, Herzi Halevi, was made on Wednesday, 25 September 2024, during his visit to a training exercise for the Seventh Brigade Division on the northern border. Halevi said: “You can hear the planes here, and we are attacking all day long. This is to prepare the area for the possibility of your return, as well as to continue attacking Hezbollah. Hezbollah expanded the circle of fire today, and will receive a very strong response later today. We will prepare”.
“Today we will continue, we will not stop, we will continue the attack and we will continue to hit them everywhere. The goal is very clear: the return of the residents of the north safely. To do this, we are preparing the maneuver path, and the meaning is that you enter your military boots, the maneuver boots, into enemy territory, you enter the village that Hezbollah has prepared to be a large military site, with underground, with survival points, with jumps to jump into our territory and carry out an attack on Israeli citizens,” Halevi added.
The Israeli occupation army launched an aggression with hundreds of air strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon and the southern suburb of Beirut on Monday 23 September 2024, and Hezbollah responded with barrages of missiles and drones that reached Tel Aviv, Haifa, Nahariya, Safed, Afula and the West Bank settlements.
Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad announced that the death toll from the Israeli occupation’s aggression on Lebanon on Wednesday 25 September 2024, rose to 51 killed and 223 wounded, bringing the number since the beginning of the Israeli occupation’s aggression on southern Lebanon to 1,247 and the number of wounded to 5,278.
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