mortenjorck 3 days ago

Yeah, this should remove any doubt that there were explosives involved. At the 500 to 1000 mA hour capacity typically used in pagers, even tampering with the battery's venting in an attempt to build up gas pressure would at worst result in a pop and some smoke from the top of the bag.

Blowing a hole in the side of the bag and sending debris for several meters is obviously not plausible with that quantity of lithium.

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this_steve_j 3 days ago

The explosion in the video does show visible smoke, but there is not a visible flame or fire.

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  • bagels 3 days ago

    It's about the lack of visible flame, but more about the velocity of the burn, essentially instantaneous at normal camera speeds.

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LightBug1 3 days ago

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  • axlee 3 days ago

    Looks pretty discriminate to me, only the pager holder was affected. I've seen multiple videos with very close bystanders completely unharmed. And whoever holds a pager from Hezbollah is a member of an armed terrorist group officially at war with Israel.

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  • underlipton 3 days ago

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    • mytailorisrich 3 days ago

      All the media reports say that these were the pagers distributed by Hezbollah to its members.

      Objectively this is therefore targeted, not indiscriminate...

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      • secondcoming 3 days ago

        Right but these were exploding in public right next to innocent people. There's CCTV footage of some of them exploding.

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