Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m no fan of Hezbollah but how is this different than spreading land mines? Even if you kill civilians in an air strike at least you can claim there were enemy combatants there. Here it is just “Eh, we’ll just kill people at random and see what happens.”
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 2 days ago
These were pagers specifically ordered by Hezbollah. Random civilians wouldn’t have had them.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 2 days ago
One of the deaths was a kid
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How many injuries, I wonder.
It is extremely cool that we continue to take “Everyone wounded by these pagers was Hezbollah” at face value once again.
This, from the same organization that bombed hospitals, schools, and refugee camps while insisting every one of them was a Hamas command center.
freeman@feddit.org 2 days ago
Thousands of peoples were wounded. And by the nature of a pager you do wear them when out and about and not only at the HQ
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 day ago
There’s thousands of Hezbollah militants as well. We don’t know yet exactly how targeted the attack was.
Regardless “only” 9 people died so far. Thousands were wounded, but that’s much better than land mines would’ve been. This attack was extraordinarily targeted, and despite there being civilians hurt, they’re likely to be less hurt than the militants and unlikely to be among the dead. Every civilian death is a tragedy, but Hezbollah and Israel are in an armed conflict. Some civilian deaths are unavoidable. I much prefer Israel do this than the indiscriminate bombing on Gaza.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 days ago
That’s still a lot more targeted than the air strike example.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So that kid was Hezbollah too then?
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Has that been verified?
sirboozebum@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Of course not.