Accounts on “X” recently published a video clip showing a massive fire, with the claim: “Southern Lebanon is burning”.
Kashif verified the video via the “INVID” tool, and found that it was of a fire in a landfill in Burj Hammoud, Beirut. On 12 September 2024, Al-Arabiya published a report on Facebook that included footage of the same event from different angles, with the following text: “Fears of its spread and calls to evacuate residents, a fire broke out in a landfill in the Burj Hammoud area of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, amid attempts by the Civil Defense team to extinguish it”.
“Al-Siyasa” X account also published the video on 12 September 2024, captioned: “A video showing the extent of the disaster. This is what the fire scene looks like in the Burj Hammoud landfill”.
It is noteworthy that a huge fire broke out in the garbage mountain in Burj Hammoud in the city of Tripoli in Lebanon on 9/12/2024.
It is worth noting that ICOM wireless devices exploded on Wednesday 9/18/2024, killing their owners and in homes in various areas of southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Lebanon.
On Tuesday, 9/17/2024, pager devices exploded with their carriers in southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Bekaa in eastern Lebanon, as well as in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and the Rif Dimashq Governorate.
Hezbollah also announced in a statement that the occupation was responsible for the attack, saying: “We hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for the aggression that also targeted civilians and led to the deaths of a number of martyrs.”
Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad announced today, Thursday, 9/19/2024, that the death toll from the wireless communications device explosions has reached 32.
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