Social media accounts published information that read: “Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar was killed in a pager explosion”.
Kashif verified the information and found it to be fabricated, as Ali Ammar, a member of the Hezbollah bloc in the Lebanese parliament, appeared on Al Jadeed TV after the explosion of the communication devices in his home in Beirut and said that his son Mahdi had been killed.
The wireless pager devices exploded on Tuesday afternoon, 17 September 2024, 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.
The Lebanese Minister of Health announced the killing of 9 people, including a child, and the injury of about 2,750, most of whom were Hezbollah members, until the time of publishing this verification.
Hezbollah announced in a statement that the Israeli 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”.
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