The attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 17 and 18, in Lebanon with exploding walkie-talkies and pagers apparently targeted members of Hezbollah. The Iran-backed political party and militant group holds Israel responsible for the strikes that killed at least 29 persons and injured around 2,800 people.

In the aftermath of the explosions a lot of fake images, videos and claims have been spreading online claiming to show the incidents.

DW's fact checking team checked three viral claims.

Claim: "An iPhone was also blown up in Lebanon", a social media user wrote on X (formerly Twitter) sharing an image of a destroyed iPhone with more than 800.000 views.

DW Fact check: False.

A reverse image search........

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