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The nuclear scientists were killed using a special weapon whose details were barred from publication, Channel 12 says.

The 10th nuclear scientist was killed shortly after the other nine, as part of the overnight Thursday-Friday Israeli operation, which included strikes on Iran’s ballistic missile program and the Natanz nuclear site, along with the elimination of top members of the Islamic Republic’s military leadership, the network says.

The nuclear scientists were all killed while they were sleeping in their beds, with Israel deciding to carry out the assassinations simultaneously so that there wouldn’t be time to tip off those being targeted.

The scientists apparently believed they were safe from such targeting in their homes, a senior Israeli official tells Channel 12, noting that previously assassinated nuclear scientists were killed while heading to their cars after work.

Israel had been tracking Iranian nuclear scientists for years and the ten killed last week were marked for assassination in November of last year, Channel 12 says.

Just when I feel like dystopian news can't really disturb me anymore...

Leaving this totally unrelated article about Palantir and Israel here for absolutely no reason at all...

How Israel Uses AI in Gaza—And What It Might Mean for the Future of Warfare:

 A program known as “The Gospel” generates suggestions for buildings and structures militants may be operating in. “Lavender” is programmed to identify suspected members of Hamas and other armed groups for assassination, from commanders all the way down to foot soldiers. “Where’s Daddy?” reportedly follows their movements by tracking their phones in order to target them—often to their homes, where their presence is regarded as confirmation of their identity. The air strike that follows might kill everyone in the target's family, if not everyone in the apartment building.

Abraham, whose report relies on conversations with six Israeli intelligence officers with first-hand experience in Gaza operations after Oct. 7, quoted targeting officers as saying they found themselves deferring to the Lavender program, despite knowing that it produces incorrect targeting suggestions in roughly 10% of cases.

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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Murdered. Not killed, murdered.

Both technically true, but the way they write killed suggests it wasn't murder in cold blood, an act of war against another country to bully and control them.

Murder.

[–] waitmarks@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I think assassinated is the appropriate term here as it's politically motivated.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

the word "kill" is typically used in regards to warfare, not murder, so I'm not sure why you would say in this instance that it was written as though it wasn't an act of war.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

10 assassinations of relatively innocent people simultaneously. Straight out of Walter white’s playbook when he went full villain.

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[–] carlossurf@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Jesus they killed everyone in the apartment complex including their kids how is this not a war crime?!?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Under the rules of war, no. The rules of war does not consider civilians casualties a crime if they happen while targeting military or military support, like weapons manufacturing.

If it were, then you could just fire missiles at your enemies from the tops of apartment buildings and they couldn't do anything about it. Yeah Hamas did do that and did make claims of war crimes whenever they got hit, but not actually a war crime. Because if it were it would encourage every military in the world to use human shields and every war becomes as horrible as the war in Gaza.

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[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

From my reading of the article, that was a hypothetical. Not to say it hasn't happened multiple times but I'm pretty sure that "may" was doing some heavy lifting.

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[–] Navarian@lemm.ee 36 points 2 days ago

Let me fix the headline - Israel commits more state sponsored terrorist attacks in neighbouring countries.

[–] Stubb@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What is the endgame here? They certainly can't be delusional enough to assume that killing civilians or bombing facilities will ingratiate them with the Iranian people to overthrow the government or even making the government surrender; how many more people will they radicalize through this process? How many more lives do they want to destroy? When will the middle east have peace?

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have gotten cynical to the point of assuming the "endgame" here is properly kicking off WW3, so that Trump gets an excuse to drop a nuke or two on an adversary.

"The last time we had a world war, we won it! We were the best - and we won it with our nukes, our big beautiful nukes - it's really a shame we haven't used them since, don't you think? We ended the war by dropping 2 on Japan, and now Japan is our best friend. Why don't we drop some nukes on Iran? Don't we want them to be our friend?"

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Or the evangelicals in Trump's ear are trying to bring about the end of the world to kick off the rapture or some goofy ass psycho shit.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Yes, and he wants to drop a nuke so bad he cant STAND it

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[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The only difference between Israel and a terrorist organization is PR and budget.

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[–] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Surely this will work wonders, they'll never recover from this. Also they won't have any incentive, because why would you even consider building a bomb in such a friendly environment? Why would there need to be an axis of resistance, let them surrender unconditionally like Trump suggested, because clearly Israel and the US are to be trusted. If only these damned Iranians remained at the negotiating table while we bombed the shit out of them unprovoked. I guess they don't want peace. /s

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Wait these genocidal idiots really called it "Operation Narnia"?

wtf

vomits on ground

This would be disgusting if it was just a normal act of war, of killing soldiers and calling it a cute name like this to disguise how any war is a tragedy, but there is a much more serious red flag here about Israel and Israeli society, this shows a blatant disregard for the humanity of these SCIENTISTS by assassinating them and making a joke out of it about sending them to dream land. Not only is this murder, the motive is a blatant lie, Iran was not developing a nuclear weapon that is undeniable and unarguable based on the overwhelming evidence.

If you still think that Israel and the US aren't coming for science, freedom of thought and peace in general you are a fool. I live in the heart of this dying empire, the US, and let me tell you, they are coming for you if you are a scientist, run or fight, either is fine but pick one soon before it is too late.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 70 points 3 days ago (11 children)

I have always been amazed that countries are allowed to get away with this. You would expect that a country that does this would have their leadership rounded up by an international strike force instantly and hauled to Hague.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

You have been playing too much rainbow six. There are no good guys in the halls of power looking after us.

There are only the rich fucks over here and the rich fucks over there pulling the levers of power.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 44 points 3 days ago (4 children)

There is no "international authority". It's all big stick politics out there. It's like trying to go after a corporation in the US. The "punishments" when they break the law are fines, if that, and any admonishment not to fuck over the same person in the same way again.

Think about your boss shorting you $100. The "legal" process involves YEARS of waiting for a court date, a labor code interpreted heavily in favor of the employer, and at the end of the day, they get fines and maybe have to pay back what you rightfully earned in the first place.

Now think about what happens when you steal $100 from work. Immediate police involvement, possible arrest, absolute legal consequences even if you're cleared years later, the presumption of guilt from everyone in society.

It's even worse on a political stage. Nobody has the moral fortitude to step forward and fix shit because it's broken. Everyone just waits around until the collective consciousness supports some sort of social consequence on the offender in question. That's not even tying race or religion into the mix, which Israel loves to twist up into their particular brand of nationalism.

The civil world is simply too polite to call them out for all their shit. It's a whole world full of chickenshit and I am tired of the stink.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There's a rules-based international order. We make the rules, and guess who gives the orders.

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[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 days ago (27 children)

I wonder how many civilians Israel killed in the process. It's probably a lot more than 0.

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[–] mhague@lemmy.world 65 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They are flying jets, using drones, and even small explosives. The homes of these scientists were severely damaged. The richest countries of the world are backing Israel.

Is this just Israel putting out propaganda? These scientists thought they were safe at home. Sinister! Super secret weapon that blows up apartment buildings. Sounds revolutionary!

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[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Narnia? What an odd name. What did they kill them with, a lion or a wardrobe?

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[–] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 81 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Yet they didn’t know about preparation for the October 7th attack?

Tinfoil hat mode: they let it happen to have a reason to raze Gaza to the ground.

(Sorry, that’s my "Bush did 9/11" moment)

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 66 points 3 days ago (26 children)
  1. what a stupid fucking name
  2. why does Israel get to have nuclear weapons
  3. why does no one ask question 2
[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (5 children)
  1. Why is it ok for them to assassinate civilians?
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[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Commentary:

You're linking to the Times of Israel. Since the news outlet operates in Israel, it is subject to censorship by the IDF, and they have chosen to use their power to censor the article and omit weapon types.

If you want information about assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, get their list from Wikipedia and google each of their names, looking for descriptions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassinations_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists

My guess: guided missile or drone strikes. All the assassinations happened at a time of Israeli air strikes over Iran. Whatever weapon was used, was deployed from airplanes. Given the high profile of the targets, Israeli intelligence agencies did their job this time (in Gaza, they seem to be feeding their troops low quality AI slop).

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 2 days ago

The weapon: 💣

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 79 points 3 days ago (12 children)

This is state sanctioned mass murder. This is state terror attacks across a national border. This is so unethical and obviously illegal, I don't know what else to say about it.

We need to distance ourselves from Israel. We need to stop giving them weapons. Right now, the taxes I pay go partially to arming them, I am partially responsible, and this is not "ok". I do not want to be doing this, I never wanted this...

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 64 points 3 days ago (21 children)

Few things say "you need a nuke, you need it right now" like foreign states killing your scientists, in their beds in the dead of night

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[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 218 points 3 days ago (42 children)

How is this all normal and ok?

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 189 points 3 days ago (42 children)

Israel had been tracking Iranian nuclear scientists for years and the ten killed last week were marked for assassination in November of last year, Channel 12 says.

This bit stood out to me. Israel has been planning this war since at least November of last year. Israel's current actions say this wasn't a simple "what if..." contingency plan that a government comes up with. This was a plan they were going to put into action soon. Makes it even more disgusting to me.

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