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I went to the hospital to start my shift, and when we swap shifts, we hand over the pages to each other.

The pages are given to us so we can be called when there's a medical emergency or a disaster, and we can go and attend to it.

This is a nurse who calls himself Adam. He was working at a hospital in Lebanon on the 17th of

September 2024. A day, everything in this country started to change.

I started at 3 and then about 3.30, the pages started beeping non-stop.

I looked at it and on the screen it said, alert. It then gave me a message that said

I needed to press two buttons, the main key and another key for it to stop. So I held it in both

hands and I kept pressing the buttons many times and it didn't stop. Then suddenly, as I was sitting

at my desk, it exploded.

Adam is a member of Hezbollah, the Shia Muslim group in Lebanon.

It's known for being a powerful militia.

The destruction of Israel remains one of its official goals.

And the group has been designated a terrorist organization

by countries, including the U including the US and the UK.

But Hezbollah is also a significant political and social movement.

Here, being a Hezbollah member doesn't necessarily mean you are a fighter.

In fact, many aren't.

People can work in the group's health institutions, for example.

Adam himself says he's never been a fighter. On that day last year, all over the country, thousands of pages

used by members of the group exploded as they were at home working or shopping. It was something

unthinkable. People had no doubt.

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