00:00On a normal day in September 2024, Hussain Taney was playing at home in southern Lebanon
00:06when an unfamiliar noise rang out from his dad's pager. He remembers hearing a strange beep.
00:10When he picked up the device, he saw an error message with an arrow pointing to the OK button.
00:14At that moment, thousands of pages distributed to members of the militant group Hezbollah
00:33were exploding in homes, shops and on front lines throughout Lebanon.
00:38The devices had been remotely detonated by Israel.
00:41Twelve people were killed, including two children as a result of the attack,
00:45with more than 3,000 injured. In another home in southern Lebanon,
00:49Sara Jafal had no time to respond after picking up a family member's pager.
01:04She has undergone 45 surgeries in nine months, with additional procedures to come,
01:09including reconstructive surgery on her face and fingers. She has lost four fingers in the attack,
01:15two of which are now fused together, and is waiting to receive a prosthetic right eye.
01:20While Hezbollah has admitted that most of the dead and wounded were its fighters or staff,
01:25the explosions also seriously injured many civilians.
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