(18 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 18 September 2024
1. Wide of Lebanese caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad entering presser ++MUTE++
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Firas Abiad, Lebanese caretaker Health Minister:
“Currently we have 4 health care workers (who died), especially from hospitals in the Dahieh area. They had pagers which exploded on them and unfortunately that led to their death.”
3. Cutaway of news conference ++MUTE++
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Firas Abiad, Lebanese caretaker Health Minister:
“Whoever saw the injured who came into the emergency room, (knows that) they were not all young men. We saw children, we saw elderly people, and this shows that a lot of these pagers were in homes. Children could have been playing with them. So we saw that those affected were not what some Israeli media described them as.”
5. Cutaway of news conference ++MUTE++
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Firas Abiad, Lebanese caretaker Health Minister:
“We have (medical) stock for around 4 months. We are trying secure other things that might impact us like fuel and other things. But I have to come back and say, the ideal solution to what is happening is a cease-fire. The ideal solution to what is happening is the diplomatic solutions that are being discussed.”
7. Various exteriors of health ministry ++MUTE++
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Firas Abiad, Lebanese caretaker Health Minister:
“Concerning those who needed to be admitted to hospital, around two-thirds of the patients or injured (in this incident) required hospitalisation, and this is very different if you compare it to the (Beirut) port blast. In the port blast, two-thirds did not require hospitalisation.”
9. End of presser ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Lebanese caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad said on Wednesday that the exploding pager attack which targeted members of Hezbollah also injured children and the elderly.
Hundreds of handheld pagers exploded near simultaneously across Lebanon and in parts of Syria.
Officials pointed the finger at Israel in what appeared to be a sophisticated, remote attack. The Israeli military declined to comment.
Abiad said many of those injured were civilians without specifying numbers.
“Whoever sees the injured who came into the emergency room, they were not all young men. We saw children, we saw elderly people, and this shows that a lot of these pagers were in homes. Children could have been playing with them. So we saw that those affected were not what some Israeli media described them as,” he said.
Abiad also said that two-thirds of the wounded needed hospitalization, adding that it is far greater than the thousands wounded in the massive Beirut Port explosion in 2020. Most of the wounded were in Beirut and its southern suburbs, he explained.
AP Video by Ali Sharafeddine
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