The Day the Pagers Exploded

A Personal Account of the 2024 Israeli War on Lebanon

An intimate account of the 2024 Lebanon war, written by a father, husband, and doctor, offering a profound sense of the existential uncertainty together with the ordinary day-to-day dimensions of war

“The Day the Pagers Explodedis a defiant act of narration. It is a Palestinian-Lebanese doctor sitting down, in the middle of a war, and refusing utterly to leave his story for someone else to tell it.”susan abulhawa, author ofMornings in Jenin

On 17 September 2024, more than 3,000 handheld pagers were detonated simultaneously among Lebanese civilians, in what became the opening strike for a war launched by Israel.

This latest round of war by Israel on Lebanon would last seventy-one days, and this book is the first personal account of the conflict from Lebanon. Written as a diary from the viewpo