The Telegraph Stealth-Edits Report Claiming Hezbollah 'Storing Weapons' at Beirut Airport

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Jun. 24, 2024

The Telegraph stealth-edited their report claiming Hezbollah is storing "huge quantities" of missiles and weapons at Beirut's main civilian airport to change the source of a quote from a security official at the "International Air Transport Association" to a security official at "a major international aviation body."

The original report stated:
A security source at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) told The Telegraph: "We have been aware of this for years, but we are unable to do anything without international legal action. We are hand tied to do what we'd really like, which is to close the airport and have all the weapons and explosives removed."
The report was then stealth-edited to state:
A security source at a major international aviation body told The Telegraph: "We have been aware of this for years, but we are unable to do anything without international legal action. We are hand tied to do what we'd really like, which is to close the airport and have all the weapons and explosives removed."
Despite changing their "source," they kept the quote the same and offered no explanation for the change!

Lebanon is now threatening to sue The Telegraph over the "false" claims they made in their report.

From The Cradle, "Lebanon to sue Telegraph over false 'Hezbollah arms storage' allegation":
Lebanon has denied claims made in The Telegraph on 23 June that Hezbollah is storing weapons in Beirut's airport and has vowed to file a lawsuit against the British daily for slander.

"The British Telegraph reported in an article today, quoting sources, that there are weapons at Beirut Airport. The sources that The Telegraph talks about are unknown, and the newspaper should contact the British Department of Transport, which has visited the airport," Lebanese Transport Minister Ali Hamieh said during a press conference from the airport on Sunday.

"Is it conceivable that a reputable newspaper would change its sources within an hour?" [Hamieh said.] [...]

The Telegraph quoted Lebanon's International Air Transport Association (IATA) as saying that it has been aware of Hezbollah weapons at the airport "for years" but is unable to do anything about it.

After the IATA announced that the quote was completely false, the daily edited the article, attributing the same quote to an unnamed "major international aviation body."

It also cites intelligence sources and airport staff as saying that weapons were making their way through the airport and being stored there and that the caches include Iranian Falaq rockets, Fateh-110 short-range missiles, road-mobile ballistic missiles, and M-600 missiles.

Commenting on the allegations, a high-ranking Lebanese security official told The Cradle, "They spread lies to later justify any Israeli attack against Beirut Airport because they want to isolate Lebanon. The enemy spreads these rumors as a kind of psychological warfare."
No wonder no one was willing to sign their name onto this propaganda piece!

It's becoming clearer by the day that The Telegraph spread these deliberate lies to provide cover for Israel to bomb Lebanon's main civilian airport and commit a war crime!


Foreign diplomats and journalists toured the airport on Monday after being invited by Lebanese officials to verify the claims were false.

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