'Nekat' circulating on social media. Montage by Jaimee Lee Haddad.
Less than 24 hours after the simultaneous explosions of Hezbollah members' beepers on Sept. 17, 2024, which resulted in dozens of deaths and thousands of injuries, social media and WhatsApp groups of all Lebanese were already flooded with messages like: "Watch out for your e-cigarettes!"; "There's the intercom; maybe I should unplug it"; or even this image of a man wearing an old vintage phone at his waist, captioned: "The only solution", with the mention that the message had been "forwarded many times."These nekat (jokes, in Arabic) circulated on the groups between urgent updates about a new wave of explosions—this time from Hezbollah walkie-talkies on Sept. 18— with photos of charred walkie-talkies, and death tolls.Since the war of attrition between Hezbollah and Israel at the border,...
Less than 24 hours after the simultaneous explosions of Hezbollah members' beepers on Sept. 17, 2024, which resulted in dozens of deaths and thousands of injuries, social media and WhatsApp groups of all Lebanese were already flooded with messages like: "Watch out for your e-cigarettes!"; "There's the intercom; maybe I should unplug it"; or even this image of a man wearing an old vintage phone at his waist, captioned: "The only solution", with the mention that the message had been "forwarded many times."These nekat (jokes, in Arabic) circulated on the groups between urgent updates about a new wave of explosions—this time from Hezbollah walkie-talkies on Sept. 18— with photos of charred walkie-talkies, and death tolls.Since the war of attrition between Hezbollah and Israel at the...
