Accounts on X published a video clip of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, singing and whistling, claiming that the video was recently published after the Pagers attack in Lebanon. The video was captioned: “First reaction of the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the operation of blowing up Hezbollah’s communications devices. He whistles a song and says, “Do you know it?”
Kashif verified the video and via reverse search on Google, it found that the video is old and the claim is misleading. Netanyahu posted the video in 2021 on his official TikTok account bnetanyahu on 10 March 2021, captioned: “Do you recognize this song?”
A page called Likud Shalanu on Facebook also posted the same video on 10 March 2021, with the description: “The Likud tone in a slightly different way”.
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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