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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JustZ@lemmy.world 1 day agoIs 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.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
villainy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Then maybe it shouldn’t be done at all.
JustZ@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe all an army has to do to take over the entire world is being their families to the front. Can’t shoot back at them because their families are there. So they pretty much win every engagement. Problem solved. No more wars.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
And you are saying noone is allowed to fight on their own land, as it endangers the public.