The same claim circulated elsewhere on X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, YouTube and Rumble – also in Spanish, French, Arabic, Turkish, Italian, Indonesian and Korean. Pakistan’s GTV News also reported the unconfirmed online rumors.
Hezbollah’s attack on the Israeli base near the town of Binyamina was the deadliest attack since Israel stepped up its offensive against the Iran-backed group late last year. September 2024.
Israel says it wants to push back Hezbollah to secure its northern border and allow tens of thousands of people displaced by rocket fire since last year to return safely home.
Hezbollah says its attacks are in solidarity with its Palestinian ally Hamas, which attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, sparking the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip. The International Organization for Migration has verified 690,000 displaced people in Lebanon.
The Hamas attack resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official Israeli figures. The number also includes hostages who died in captivity.
Israel’s military retaliation campaign in Gaza has killed 42,289 people in the Hamas-held territory, the majority of them civilians, according to the Health Ministry. The United Nations has described the figures as reliable.
Despite reports claiming he died, Halevi traveled to visitat the Binyamina training base, which housed members of Israel’s Golani Brigade, on October 14 – hours after Hezbollah’s drone strike.
“We are at war and an attack on a training base on the home front is difficult and the consequences are painful.” he told the soldiers during the visit.
Film material and footage captured by the IDF shows Halevi walking around the site with other members of the country’s military (archived here and here).
The IDF also posted one statement on
AFP has debunked other claims about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict here.
