Comment by OutOfHere

Comment by OutOfHere 10 months ago

12 replies

> This was a deliberate targeting of terrorists,

Negative. Anyone can use a pager or a walkie talkie. If this were to have happened in say the US, it would 100% be considered not only terrorism, but an act of war.

Ancapistani 10 months ago

> Anyone can use a pager or a walkie talkie.

Israel is not targeting "pagers and walkie talkies".

They are targeting pagers and walkie talkies specifically ordered, paid for, and supplied to individuals by Hezbollah.

orionsbelt 10 months ago

Who is using a pager or walkie talking in 2024? I will admit there was maybe a few bystanders standing too close to a Hezbollah member, but how many non-Hezbollah members do you think really had one of these pagers? Keep in mind Israel also does surveillance and probably tracked where they went. If it turns out a material % of these were owned by civilians, I might agree with you, but I suspect that’s not the case.

  • anigbrowl 10 months ago

    I own walkie talkies. So does any large retail store in the US, they're given to staff to communicate. Every film set with more than 10 crew members uses them. I could go on. I'm amazed people come to a web community about technology to broadcast such ignorance.

    • djohnston 10 months ago

      Did you buy your walkie talkie in a batch shipment with Hezbollah?

      • anigbrowl 10 months ago

        No, and HN is not the place for such dumb snark. Maybe you'd be happier on Titter or Reddit.

  • OutOfHere 10 months ago

    Just because you don't know of legitimate uses of a walkie doesn't mean they don't exist. A walkie can work independent of a cell phone network, which makes it uniquely useful for numerous applications. Not everyone can afford a cell phone bill.

    • anthk 10 months ago

      For instance, emergencies at the countryside/wilderness. Or Firefighters.

  • anthk 10 months ago

    In the 3rd world, any hospital.

deepsun 10 months ago

But those were not any random public pagers. They were custom made, ordered specifically for their internal operations.

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HDThoreaun 10 months ago

These were pagers sold to Hezbollah though, not random pagers.