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ARCHIVE: Beirut, Lebanon – 17 September 2024
1. Ambulance arriving at hospital
VOICEOVER: On the afternoon of September 17, 2024, Hussein Dheini was playing on his mobile phone at home when an unfamiliar buzzing rang through the house. It was coming from his dad’s pager.
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Teir Debba, Lebanon – 1 May 2025
2. Hussein Dheini hugging his mother
3. Close of Dheini’s mother holding his hands
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussein Dheini, Pager attack victim:
“This was a strange beep, so I picked it up and brought up close to my eyes and saw an error message with an arrow pointing to the word “ok”, when I pressed the ‘ok’ button it exploded.”
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ARCHIVE: Beirut, Lebanon – 17 September 2024
5. Ambulance speeding by
6. Ambulance pulling into hospital
VOICEOVER: At that moment, thousands of pagers distributed to the Hezbollah militant group were blowing up in homes, offices, shops and on frontlines across Lebanon, remotely detonated by Israel. The pager attack was stunning in its scope. It wounded more than 3,000 people and killed 12, including two children.
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ARCHIVE: Sidon, Lebanon – 18 September 2024
7. Various of smoke coming out of mobile phone shop and Lebanese civil defence vehicles in the street
8. Close of smoke coming out of shop
VOICEOVER: In another household in the south of Lebanon, Sarah Jaffal didn’t have time to react after picking up a pager belonging to a family member. The explosion took her by surprise.
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Bazourieh, Lebanon – 1 May 2025
9. Sarah Jaffal typing on her laptop
10. Close of Jaffal’s hands
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sarah Jaffal, Pager attack survivor:
“I was holding (the pager) with both hands and looking at it as I was about to get up and hand it over, I didn’t hear it explode, but suddenly everything went dark and I couldn’t see anything and I felt I was in a whirlpool.”
VOICEOVER: Sarah has had 45 surgeries in nine months and more will come, including reconstructive surgery on her face and fingers. Two fingers are fused together, four are missing. She is waiting for a prosthetic right eye and undergoing physiotherapy. Hezbollah has acknowledged that most of those wounded and killed were its fighters or personnel. However, the explosions also wounded many civilians like Sarah, who was one of 4 women along with 71 men who received medical treatment in Iran.
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Tyre, Lebanon – 28 May 2025
12. Various of Jaffal doing a physical therapy session with doctor
13. Jaffal in pain
14. Various of Jaffal doing physical therapy exercises on her injured hand
VOICEOVER: Hezbollah won’t say exactly how many civilians were hurt, but said most civilians injured were relatives of Hezbollah personnel or workers in Hezbollah-linked institutions, including hospitals. Preacher Mustafa Choeib recalled that his two young daughters used to play with his pager, and he sometimes found it among their toys. Choeib suffered extensive damage to his hands when his pager exploded.
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Burj Rahhal, Lebanon – 28 April 2025
15. Mustafa Choeib walking into his house, using a cane to guide him
16. Choeib being helped to sit down
17. Close of Choeib’s face showing the injuries
18. Various of Choeib praying
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mustafa Choeib, Pager attack survivor:
“I’ve had six or seven surgeries on this hand alone, in order to save this much of it. The sight was really frightening; my hand was very badly wounded.”
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Teir Debba, Lebanon – 1 May 2025
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