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[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 21 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

How many injuries, I wonder.

It is extremely cool that we continue to take "Everyone wounded by these pagers was Hezbollah" at face value once again.

This, from the same organization that bombed hospitals, schools, and refugee camps while insisting every one of them was a Hamas command center.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah, yes, the 2758 people were all Hezbollah.

[–] filister@lemmy.world -4 points 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 months ago

They're already at war though.

[–] freeman@feddit.org 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thousands of peoples were wounded. And by the nature of a pager you do wear them when out and about and not only at the HQ

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

That's still a lot more targeted than the air strike example.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev -2 points 3 months ago

There's thousands of Hezbollah militants as well. We don't know yet exactly how targeted the attack was.

Regardless "only" 9 people died so far. Thousands were wounded, but that's much better than land mines would've been. This attack was extraordinarily targeted, and despite there being civilians hurt, they're likely to be less hurt than the militants and unlikely to be among the dead. Every civilian death is a tragedy, but Hezbollah and Israel are in an armed conflict. Some civilian deaths are unavoidable. I much prefer Israel do this than the indiscriminate bombing on Gaza.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Of course not.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

So that kid was Hezbollah too then?