Aside from the death and injury, what concerns me about this is why now?
There is little doubt in my mind that the Prime Minister of Israel is highly motivated to engage in a wider war and drag the US along.
This mass bombing could well be in preparation for imminent further action - such as an invasion of Lebanon. Regardless, the escalation this represents is extremely concerning.
UN Security Council Resolution 1566 outlines what is considered as terrorism:
"criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act."
If their purpose was really about scaring Hezbollah away, this attack can be labelled as terrorism. I'm pretty sure politicians have different ideas there.
Ah words hardly mean anything these days. It very clearly is terrorism but you won't ever hear any politician in the west calling it that.
Yeah, true. It's either terrorism or borderline-terrorism at least. But people still gotta talk if they're not willing to wage another war against each other. We clearly have too many wars going around, so politicians will have to forge up some bullshit excuses.
On the other hand, one could view this a show of force to try and scare Hezbollah away from further escalation