Comment by ComputerGuru
Comment by ComputerGuru 10 months ago
There are now over two thousand injuries and at least one nine year old girl dead. This was a reckless attack, a war crime, and a blatant disregard of international law.
You’re not targeting pacemakers embedded only in the chest cavities of known Hezbollah militants but devices often left around family and children. Hezbollah is a massive political entity with probably more non-combatants than combatants. The pagers are used by accountants, doctors, civil salarymen, it workers, and others that are not legal targets under IHL.
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/17/middle-ea...
> Among those killed is an eight-year-old girl from Bekka Valley, Abiad said, according to Al Jazeera.
> At least 2,800 people have been wounded, he added, and more than 200 are in critical condition.
If the pagers all belong to military targets is this a war crime? It means basically that all war is a crime. Which from an idealistic point of view I agree, but that's not how the world works.
Rockets are fired to the Israeli north for a year now, about a 200k civilians are evacuated for a year now because the rockets are mostly randomly targeted.
a 3 yo Israeli baby is still held hostage by hamas, never meeting the red cross.
Are these war crimes?