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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (24 children)

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 21 points 2 months ago (23 children)

These were pagers specifically ordered by Hezbollah. Random civilians wouldn't have had them.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, yes, the 2758 people were all Hezbollah.

[–] filister@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Most likely most of them were though. I mean I don't think many people outside Hezbollah were using pagers, not to mention that most likely they tampered one or two batches of them only.

I am just wondering what the official government of Lebanon is thinking about this incident because in my opinion that's a huge blow into the sovereignty of a foreign country. Imagine something similar happens in Israel or the US, do you think those countries would sit on the diplomatic table and negotiate?

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The problem with explosions is that they injure everyone nearby, not just the person with the explosion in their pocket.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can look up the videos. People standing three feet away are fine while the person with the pager is down for the count. Innocents are always harmed in war, but this was about as precise and just a strike as humanly possible.

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I'm sure that'll make that girl's friends and remaining family feel much better.

The explosions had to happen at the same time to be effective, and so people who were being attacked were in a variety of places. Detonating explosives in an uncontrolled variety of public places is not precise.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago

They're already at war though.

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