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Speaker 1: Wednesday evening came another day of multiple explosions in Lebanon,

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killing about nine persons and injured estimated three hundred others

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as residents reported multiple communication devices, vehicle batteries, moto and

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scutter batteries, solar batteries, timer batteries, computers, mobile phones, shavers,

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lillion batteries exploding just burly twenty four hours Pagers explosions

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killed twelve persons and injured over two thousand, eight hundred others,

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with some currently in a critical condition in the hospital.

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Whennes The explosions were reported in the Roots and other

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multiple parts of Lebanon, including during a funeral ceremony where

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some of the victims of Tillesday attacks were being buried.

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Videos posted online by residents showed fires broke out in

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homes and vernicles, with victims rushed to hospitals with severe injuries.

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Hencepolar officials and state media reported Witness Day that walkie

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talkie and even solar equipment detonated. The Lebanon Health Ministry

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was earlier courted to have said that one person died

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during the Wedness Day explosions and over one hundred others

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sustained injuries. Both The figures have since reasen According to

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local media, Several blasts were held at the funeral in

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Broot for three Hesbuller numbers and a child killed by

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exploding pages the day before, according to Associated print journalists.

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At the same an AP photographer in the southern coastal

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city of Sidon reported a car and a mobile phone

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shop damaged after devices exploded inside of them. Routers also

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reported on Witness Day that smoke billows out of a

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mobile phone shop in Sidon after handheld radios used by

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Hesbuller detonated. Lebanon cut and in Berut southern suburbs. A

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security source and the witness said the explosions occurred a

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day after pages used by Hesbuller blew off, killing at

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least twelve and injuring thousands. Israel’s Iron Dome also inter

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certain missiles on the second day of explosions in Lebanon.

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There was no comment from Israel on the Waki talkie explosions.

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Israel’s Massatisfy agency planted explosives in Hezbola’s tavernment pages the

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day before. Sausage Tel Routers we had reported that Gold

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Apollo has denied being the producer of the pager telecommunication

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device reportedly used by Hezbulan members in recent time to

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event Israeli armed forces tracking their locations, which on Tuesday

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appeared to have been ripped in highly populated areas in Lebanon,

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causing explosions as holders of the pages go into public

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places doing their normal daily businesses. Health Ministry in Lebanon

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said on Wednesday that a total of twelve percents have

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been confounded, while two thousand, eight hundred have been in

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the hospitals across Lebanon with sustained injuries from the Tuesday

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multiple pages explosions across the route. Taiwan’s Gold Apollo said

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on Wednesday that Black Consulting Kft, based in Budapest, has

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a license to use its brand and met the model

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of pages used in the detonations in Lebanon a day earlier.

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According to AFP reports, regarding the AR nine hundred and

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twenty four pager model mentioned in the recent midiar reports,

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we clarify that this model is produced and sold by

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vac Gold Apollo said in a statement as he met

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with journalists at his office in Taiwan. Hsu said the

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pages used in the explosion were met by a company

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in Europe that had the right to use the Taiwanese

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firms brand. Roters reported the Wednesday meeting with journalists that

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the Taiwanese pager firm gold Apollo said it had only

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licensed out its brand to the company and was not

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involved in the production of the devices. According to a

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senior Lebanese security source and another source, explosives inside the

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devices were planted by Israel’s Muscat spy agency. Images of

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destroyed pages analyzed by routers showed a format and stickers

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on the back that were consistent with pages made by

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gold Apollo. The product was not ours, it was only

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that it had our brand on it, Gold Apollo founder

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and president Hsu Chin Kwan told reporters at the company’s

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offices in the northern Taiwanese city of New Taipei on Wednesday.

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The company said in the statement that the AR nine

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hundred and twenty four model was produced and sold by BAC.

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Gold Apollo authorized Back to use our brand tredemark for

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product cells in specific regions, but the design and manufacturing

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of the products are entirely handled by BAC, the statement said.

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Routers calls and emails to Back on Wednesday morning were

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not answered. Hsu said earlier there had been problems with

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remittances from the firm. The remittance was very strange, he said,

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adding that payments had come through the Middle East. He

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did not elaborate further. Hence, polar fighters began using pages

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in the belief that would be able to event Israeli

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tracking of their locations, two success familiar with the group’s

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operations told routers this year. Hsu said he did not

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know how the pagers could have been reaped to explode.

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While Hsu was meeting with reporters, police officials arrived at

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the company. Officials from Taiwan’s Economy Ministry also visited Gold Apollo.

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The ministry said in a statement that there was no

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record of direct pager exports from Taiwan to Lebanon. Hsu

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also said Gold Apollo was a victim of the incident

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and planned to sue the licensee. We may not be

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a large company, but we are irresponsible one, he said.

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This is very embarrassing, according to routers. On Wednesday, meanwhile,

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they exploded pagers killed twelve people in Lebanon, including two children.

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The country’s health ministers sailed on Wednesday, updating the toll.

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A day after the blasts blumed on Israel. Hundreds of

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the wireless devices exploded simultaneously across Lebanon on Tuesday, hours

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after Israel said it was broadening the aims of the

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Gaza war to include its fight against Hezbullah. Israel has

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yet to comment on the unprecedented attacks. On Wednesday, Lebanese

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health minister Ferris Amir said twelve people were killed and

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between two thousand, seven hundred and fifty and two thousand

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eight hundred others were wounded, revising the toll up from

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nine dead. After checking with all the hospitals, the toll

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was revised to twelve, then, including two children. Ama told

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a news conference the dead included a girl and a boy,

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as well as four health workers from private hospitals in

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the root southern suburbs who heard pages, he said. Aliad

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said that the attack was very big, with about two thousand,

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eight hundred wounded people pouring into Lebanese hospitals within half

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an hour. The pages went off in the Iran but

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Hezbola groups many strongholds of southern Barut and Lebanons east

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and south, some cases in Lebanon’s eastern Beker Valley were

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transferred to Syria, while other cases would be evacuated to Iran.

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He added about seven hundred and fifty wounded people were

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in the south, around one hundred and fifty ware in

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the Beker Valley and some one thousand, eight hundred and

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fifty ware in Beirut and its southern suburbs. He said

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a little less than three hundred patients are in critical condition,

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with some suffering from first injuries and brain hair origin.

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Albad said the wounded who arrived at the emergency room

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when not all young men. We saw children and elderly people,

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Agayad said. According to AFP reports, the Lebanese based militant

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group Hezbula has vowed to take revenge out of blaming

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Israel for detonating pages on Tuesdays that killed twelve people

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and wounded two thousand, eight hundred others, including many of

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the militant groups fighters and Iran’s envoy to Beirut. Roters

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reports that the country’s information ministers l Markari has condemned

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the destruction of the pagers used by Herzbula and others

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in Lebanon to communicate. Egypt Today magazine reported that Egypt

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has restated its own wavering kidneys on Lebanon security and

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stability and the non violation of its sovereignty by any

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external party. Following the tragic detonation of pagan devices across

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Lebanon on Tuesday, Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Baga and

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the latter reached out to Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najetnikati and

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Minister of Foreign Affairs Abder La Bouabi, conveying Egyptian President

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Abdelfata or Sisantry aformation of this support. Sincel has directed

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Abdalati to promptly engage with Lebanese officials, I found full

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support to Lebanon and offered the provision of all possible

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forms of assistance in the wake of this tragic incident,

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read a statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. In his discussions,

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Abdalati reiterated a caution against the escalating regional tensions and

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one against pushing the region into an all out war.

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He highlighted the Alarmin and swift developments unfolded in southern

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Lebanon as ominous signs that the region stands on the

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brink of a perilostonan point due to irresponsible and replace

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unilateral actions. Read the statement the Foreign Minister on the

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score the critical importance of adverting further escalation through an

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immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, a cessssion of Israeli

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assaults in the West Bank, and the s sweet till

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ensuring the release of captives and prisoners, alongside on impeded

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access to humanitarian and medical aid in Gaza. CNN revealed

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that the assault was a coordinated effort between Israel’s intelligence service,

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the Merzad, and the Israeli military. Israel had explosives in

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the gold Apollo pages before the way imported to Labor noon.

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The New York Times reported, citing American and other officials

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briefed on the operation, the Israeli intelligence added a switch

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to the device for remote detonation. Egypt Today magazine reported

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France twenty four few hours ago also reported that the

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US Secretary of State Anthony blinkn met with Egyptian President

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Abdelfater Alcesi and other Egyptian officials on Wednesday, in his

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tent trip to the Middle East since the war in

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Gaza began nearly one year ago. Blinker is expected to

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hold a press conference with Foreign Minister Burder Abdelahti, but

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will not be visiting Israel in this round of diplomacy.

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The top US diplomats visit comes as the region remains

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on high alert, particularly after militant group has Mular promised

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to retaliate against Israel, accusing it of the donating pages

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across Lebanon. On Tuesday, France twenty four reported. In another development,

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the Lebanese Minister of Education has directed the closure of

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all public and private schools, including universities on Wednesday in

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condemnation for a mass pleasure attack that killed twelve persons

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and wounded two thousand, eight hundred others across Lebanon. The

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Minister Abbas Alhalai said schools and universities across Lebanon will

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close to condemn the criminal act committed by the Israeli

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enemy against Lebanese citizens. Most of the victims suffered injuries

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to the hand, while some were also injured in the face,

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adomen and the eyes. According to the Health Ministry, sus

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walk On level printed up needs in a more digital

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ware