Comment by rabidonrails
Comment by rabidonrails 3 days ago
I'd disagree - this seems highly targeted. There aren't that many people with pagers but pagers were a specific way for Hezbollah to speak to operatives.
Comment by rabidonrails 3 days ago
I'd disagree - this seems highly targeted. There aren't that many people with pagers but pagers were a specific way for Hezbollah to speak to operatives.
these weren't random pagers. They intercepted a shipment of thousands of pagers for hezbollah and rigged them with explosives, and set them off likely using hezbollah's own command and control network.
Random doctors in the hospital won't have these.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/pagers-drones-how-...
In July reuters was telling us how hezbollah was using pagers to defeat israel. Israel was smarter than them.
> Random doctors in the hospital won't have these.
To put a slightly finer point on it: Even an uninvolved doctor somehow came to own a booby-trapped pager, they wouldn't be carrying it around every day unless it was configured to listen to the hospital's broadcast network of real medical messages, as opposed to leaving it tuned to Hezbollah High Command or whatever.
Yeah, this is likely government backed, so targeting is most likely.
The news reports are saying a lot of explosions happened at hospitals. Considering that pagers are still in common use by Western doctors, I'm wondering if they considered hospital staff to be acceptable casualties.