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Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon

Pagers carried by thousands of Hezbollah operatives exploded within a short period Tuesday, injuring nearly 2,800 people and killing nine. The explosions spread across Lebanon in areas where Hezbollah had a heavy presence. A Hezbollah official said many fighters had such devices, speculating that malware might have caused the devices to explode.

xmunk ,

American intelligence officials have stated that Isreal is behind this and it was a deliberate attack.

apfelwoiSchoppen ,
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Wonder why the US intelligence officials didn’t try to stop it, then.

Darkassassin07 ,
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Complicity.

Kaboom ,

That would imply that Israel started the Israeli - Hezbollah war. “On 8 October 2023, Hezbollah started firing guided rockets and artillery shells at Israeli positions”

…wikipedia.org/…/Israel–Hezbollah_conflict_(2023–…

This is an ongoing war, not some surprise attack. Hezbollah is just whining because they’re cowards who started something they can’t finish, and now are facing the consequences of their actions.

Darkassassin07 , (edited )
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Yeah, that justifies putting explosives in thousands of devices shipped to civilians and/or used directly in the vicinity of civilians; causing thousands of innocent people to be injured and killed indiscriminately.

Fuck off.

This was an act of pure terrorism, and (another) clear violation of the Geneva conventions.

mkwt ,

The Geneva conventions do not contain the level of protection for civilians that you think.

In particular, Israel has ratified and is a party to the conventions of 1949. After much debate in 1949, those conventions ultimately allowed things like indiscriminate carpet bombing of cities (which the US practiced extensively in the previous war).

Later protocols from 1977 added more civilian protections more along the lines you propose. These protocols banned carpet bombing and introduced the concept of proportionate response into the conventions.

Israel and the United States have not ratified the 1977 protocols 1 and 2 concerning additional civilian protections. According to the text itself, they are not bound by the provisions if they do not agree.

Darkassassin07 ,
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Huh, while I knew the civilian protections came later, I didn’t know both Israel and the US never agreed to abide by them… TIL

It’s still terrorism and incredibly wrong.

iopq ,

They did not ship to civilians. They shipped to Hezbollah members, aka terrorists

apfelwoiSchoppen ,
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No doubt about it.

GBU_28 ,

Huh? Where have you seen evidence than the US is a fan of Hezbollah?

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