Top Hezbollah official issues warning at funeral for victims of pager explosions

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(18 Sep 2024)
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Southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon - 18 September 2024
1. Various of Hezbollah members and scouts carrying coffins of 2 militants, a paramedic and young scout child killed in Tuesday's pager explosions
2. Relatives crying over coffin of young scout passing under big poster of him
3. Hezbollah officials participating
4. Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine heading towards the podium
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah’s executive council:
“This aggression certainly has its own punishment and retribution. This punishment is surely coming, by the will of God Almighty. We will not speak much now, for tomorrow the leader of the resistance (Hezbollah leader Nasrallah) will address us, where everything will become clear and we will be facing a new phase and a new confrontation with this enemy, so they will know that we are a people who cannot be defeated.”
6. Drone flying over procession
7. Various of crowds participating in procession, army vehicle seen among crowds
8. Ambulances passing through crowds
9. Various of procession participants carrying coffins towards Al Hawraa cemetery

STORYLINE:
Thousands of people on Wednesday joined the funeral parade in Beirut for three Hezbollah members and a boy scout who were killed in the pager explosions the previous day.

Security was tight, with Lebanese troops deployed along some intersections, while Hezbollah operatives dressed in black were positioned around a cemetery where the dead are buried.

At least one drone, believed to be Israeli, could be seen flying over the gathering of mourners.

Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah’s executive council, spoke during the procession, saying that the militant group would respond to Tuesday's blasts with its own "punishment and retribution".

Hundreds of handheld pagers exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon and in parts of Syria on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, government and Hezbollah officials said.

Officials pointed the finger at Israel in what appeared to be a sophisticated remote attack, but the Israeli military has declined to comment.

As the funeral procession continued, a number of electronic devices exploded in multiple regions of the country, killing at least nine people and wounding 300.

Associated Press journalists reported multiple explosions at the site of the Beirut procession.

AP video by Fadi Tawil, Ali Sharafeddine
Production by Ali Sharafeddine

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