A claim circulated by a Kan 11 reporter accusing residents of Bnei Brak of reckless behavior during the war was contradicted after police determined that the suspect involved in the incident was not from the city, exposing the allegation as unfounded.

Even as Israel remains at war, with sirens sounding across the country and missile attacks continuing, critics say some media figures continue directing hostility toward the chareidi public, sometimes attaching accusations to current events without evidence.

The latest episode occurred Sunday when a Kan 11 reporter used a criminal incident in Bnei Brak to accuse the city’s residents, despite lacking any factual basis. Police later clarified that the allegation was incorrect.

In a post on the social media platform X that remained online, reporter Hadas Greenberg shared a video showing a young man handling a cluster bomb fragment and wrote: “Meanwhile somewhere in Bnei Brak they are playing with a cluster bomb remnant. In the end they will really die and still not enlist.”

Police later reported that the individual involved was actually a resident of the Arab city of Tira. According to the police statement, officers detained the suspect after he allegedly collected a cluster bomb into his vehicle in Bnei Brak during the missile barrage and fled the scene.

Investigators were able to identify the suspect by tracing the vehicle’s license plate number and subsequently located and detained him.

Police bomb disposal units arrived at the scene, safely handled the cluster bomb that had been found, and conducted extensive searches of the surrounding area to ensure that no further danger remained to the public.