Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers

• archomrade@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Likely because the bulk of those wounded by this attack were not Hezbollah

  I don’t even know how you’d reasonably expect to only injure your targets in an attack as widespread and remote as this one. Seems blatantly indiscriminate at best.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Likely because the bulk of those wounded by this attack were not Hezbollah

    What makes you think that? These pagers were bought by Hesbollah to be used by their guys.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      These pagers were bought by Hesbollah

      All we know is that a bunch of exploding pagers were distributed through Lebanon. The IDF claims they were given to Hezbollah agents, but they’ve been caught lying regularly.

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    • archomrade@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Uhhh, because these were bombs - bombs that were remotely and indiscriminately detonated. Some of the people were driving, some standing next to children or on busses full of people. There are reports of children who died because they were standing next to a target at head-level with the pager.There’s no guarantee they were even being carried by “Hezbollah’s guys”.

      I don’t even know why anyone would assume otherwise. This was a loosely targeted terror attack

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Because anyone within 5 meters of the pager also was hurt.

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• JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Stunning that you’re being downvoted. This was a brilliant attack on a group that actually attacks Israel actually indiscriminately on the daily.

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    National order isnt based on tit for tat. If someone commits a war crime against you it doesnt mean you get to do it too.

    In my opinion the time of day they chose to blow them shows they wanted as much collateral damage as they could.

    What’s the advantage of making excuses for committing war crimes?

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    • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      At a certain point it stops being worth it. If sending a brainwashed 11 yo to blow up a checkpoint means you can no longer trust having any technology near you, your family and friends it might cause hesitation.

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      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wishful thinking, they aren’t fighting because they want to. Noone likes violence.

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    • JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Is there any time of day it’s not atrocious? Seems like any time would have basically equal risk for collateral casualties.

      To be effective it all had to be at once. It seems that they waited until the pagers were being used to coordinate a fresh wave of rocket attacks with promises of more to come before setting them off.

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      • villainy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Is there any time of day it’s not atrocious? Seems like any time would have basically equal risk for collateral casualties.

        Then maybe it shouldn’t be done at all.

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      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Because that time of day is when the most people will be out in public. It seems deliberately designed to cause as much damage as widely as possible. Likely to cause fear in the population.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Jews and cops are always in the wrong on this platform.

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    • logi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There you go conflating Jews and Israel. Apart from that you have an arguable point.

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Israelis and cops just doesn’t sound as snappy.

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• erenkoylu@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Israel is a terrorist organization. Radical, fundamentalist Jewish terrorism.

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