The death toll from the Beirut bombing rose to 171 dead and about 6 thousand injured, amid continuing popular anger against the government, while the French News Agency prepared an investigation that reveals the falsehood of several news and statements that accompanied the explosion.

Lebanese, Arab and international rescue teams continued to remove rubble in Beirut port in search of missing people as a result of the explosion that occurred on the 4th of this month.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health said that the number of victims of the explosion rose to 171 dead and about 6 thousand wounded, in addition to more than 30 missing.
Yesterday evening, confrontations between protesters and security forces were renewed near one of the entrances to Parliament (downtown Beirut), after the protesters tried to reach the parliament headquarters. The protesters are demanding that the political class be held accountable for the port explosion.

Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, expressed his rejection of any violence against the Lebanese demonstrators, and said it was unacceptable. Dujarric added that the international organization calls for the security forces to show restraint and allow people to demonstrate peacefully in all countries.

"The people of Lebanon want to be heard, and that is why it is important that people be allowed to express themselves freely and peacefully," Dujarric quoted the Secretary-General of the United Nations as saying.

Warning of the void
For his part, the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jan Kubisch, stressed the importance of avoiding a long period of government vacuum in Lebanon, and urged to accelerate the formation of a government that meets the aspirations of the people and enjoys their support.

He added that the new government must be able to put an end to corruption and address the many urgent challenges facing the country.
He also stressed the importance of addressing urgent humanitarian needs and undertaking the necessary reforms to restore the confidence of the people and the international community in their support for Lebanon.

A huge explosion shook Beirut shortly after 6 pm on August 4, and turned entire areas of the capital to rubble.

In the first moments after the explosion, residents of every street in Beirut thought that their street was the one that was targeted by a car bomb or bombardment of unknown source, before it became clear that the entire capital had been afflicted by the explosion of 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate that was stored in a hangar in the port as a result of a fire whose cause is not confirmed Yet, according to the authorities' account.

The flood of false news and
before the start of the investigation, the communication sites settled the cause of the explosion, and several false news spread, the most prominent of which were:

Netanyahu claims the blast, the
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed responsibility for the incident, and people passed on a statement to him on the grounds that he had made a response to the explosion, saying, "We have hit those who are targeting us."

But the truth is that Netanyahu made this statement hours before the Beirut port explosion, in the context of talking about a raid carried out by Israel near the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, and not a comment on what happened in the port.

Map of the port
A picture of Netanyahu spread to the United Nations two years ago, in which he raised a map, and it was circulated by people on the basis that it is a map showing the location of the port of Beirut.

However, the location shown on the map has nothing to do with the Beirut port, which is located at the northern entrance to the capital. Rather, it is an area adjacent to the Rafic Hariri International Airport at the southern entrance to Beirut, about 10 kilometers from the port.

In his speech at the United Nations, Netanyahu was talking about “secret sites” belonging to the Lebanese Hezbollah that contained projectiles “directed at the airport,” he said, but he did not mention the port of Beirut.

Targeting Hezbollah's weapons
Less than an hour after the explosion, a news story attributed to the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" appeared on the Arabic language communication sites, talking about targeting Hezbollah weapons in the port of Beirut, but the truth is that the newspaper did not publish such news.

Missiles and
drones In the same context, video clips appeared on social media in Lebanon and abroad, which were said to show drones or missiles hitting the port.

It was accompanied by news and testimonies of people who said that they had heard the sound of warplanes prior to the explosion.

A video of a drone appeared, whose publishers claim that it dropped an unknown object before the port exploded, and the clip has spread on communication sites in several languages, including Arabic.

However, this video was published by Lebanese media on July 30, that is, days before the port explosion, with the title “Two enemy drone aircraft flying” in southern Lebanon.

A video was also circulated on the communication sites in Arabic and other languages, which was said to be a thermal imaging showing a missile striking the port before the moment of the explosion. But the clip is manipulative, as I switch colors and add a missile to it.

A clip was also widely circulated that it showed a missile hitting the port before the explosion, but the clip is old, and the missile was added to it in support of these allegations.

Blazing cars
in seconds, the blast completely destroyed the harbor and the vibrant streets in its vicinity were reduced to rubble.

However, the access sites were not satisfied with the horrific scenes of destruction, but also added pictures taken in other times and places.
Pictures of imported cars that were burned in the Beirut port were spread on the communication sites in many languages, but these photos were taken in 2015.

The blast crater and
also the image of a crater said to be caused by the explosion, but the image was from a chemical depot that exploded in 2015.

The colors of the Lebanese flag
and the disaster that befell Beirut sparked widespread Arab and international solidarity, but the news that spread on communication sites and some news sites about lighting in Egypt, Tunisia or Syria in the colors of the Lebanese flag are incorrect news, and the pictures attached to it are either composite in most of them, or Old, taken on previous occasions.

Sending the wounded to Syria
. News, pictures, and clips have spread about the Syrian president’s intervention to treat the wounded, and that some of them crossed the borders to enter Syrian hospitals, but these publications are incorrect.

Turkish silos
and the news spread that wheat silos in the port of Beirut, part of which remained standing despite the great damage that was inflicted on them, is one of the achievements of the Ottoman Empire.

However, the silos were built in the late 1960s, half a century after the end of the Ottoman rule of Lebanon.

Tickling feelings
Also, false news appeared, tickling the feelings of social media users in the world to attract interactions in isolation from any political dimension.

Users posted photos of a 3-year-old girl who died in the explosion while performing a song from the time of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), but the girl is still alive.

A picture appeared that it showed two victims of the explosion on the ground, but this photo was published by an American artist two weeks before the Beirut Port explosion.