Comment by ars
Comment by ars a year ago
These pagers were distributed only to Hezbollah members, these were not just standard pagers anyone could buy.
Comment by ars a year ago
These pagers were distributed only to Hezbollah members, these were not just standard pagers anyone could buy.
Hezbollah also has a massive social services wing, operating hospitals, schools, etc. I'd keep that in mind when hitching my wagon to this line of thinking.
Nothing in the linked article backs up the implication that only members of Helbollah’s militant wing had these.
It did, however, mention that an 8 year old girl was killed by one of them. Which is a foreseeable consequence of widely distributing a bunch of bombs and then detonating them without regard for who’s nearby.
Even though I personally doubt this statement, care to explain how that would possibly be enough? If an explosion happens, everyone in range is hit.
"Enough" to meet what criteria? A couple foot blast on handheld device on a military personnel is brain surgery in comparison to typical rockets with accuracy and blast radii measured in double digit meters
like I don't know, someone's spouse or child? Someone standing next to the thing when it's sitting on a night stand?
Small charges (measured in grams) are extremely local and typically highly directional. They have a distinctive signature that is in evidence here. It isn't like a giant bomb going off.
> everyone in range is hit.
The range is tiny. Go watch some videos, for example this one: https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1836037485492629605
People standing directly next to the target are unharmed.
you realize they exploded, right? potentially as someone's child was nearby. or playing with it. or in the middle of a grocery story.
Do you have a reference for that? And does it explain how Israel's assassins were sure none of the pagers weren't resold, nor given away, nor that someone's kid was playing with it?