Comment by hedora

Comment by hedora 10 months ago

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According to the BBC, of the 12 killed by pages, four were doctors, so it looks like Israel targeted hospitals as part of this attack.

They also must have known that many of these bombs would detonate in public places where they would injure many civilians. I suspect the be breakdown of the thousands injured will disproportionately be innocent bystanders.

Claiming this was a targeted military attack is ludicrous.

gizmondo 10 months ago

> According to the BBC, of the 12 killed by pages, four were doctors, so it looks like Israel targeted hospitals as part of this attack.

Someone being a doctor does not prevent them from being a Hezbollah operative, al-Zawahiri was also a doctor. The proportion seems to be too high for that explanation alone, but also could be a coincidence given the small sample.

> They also must have known that many of these bombs would detonate in public places where they would injure many civilians. I suspect the be breakdown of the thousands injured will disproportionately be innocent bystanders.

Why do you suspect that, given that on all videos of pagers detonating in public places only their owners are injured?

sir0010010 10 months ago

Why would doctors have Hezbollah pagers or otherwise be involved with Hezbollah?

Also, what other means of attack would have a better combatant/civilian casualty ratio than this? Do you think that dropping bombs or sending in ground forces with M16s would have hit a lower percentage of civilians?

  • mirzap 10 months ago

    Hezbollah is a legitimate political party in Lebanon, like it or not. This means that they have a lot of civilians involved in running a country. Just imagine Russia targeting pro-fascist AfD in Germany and justifying that by "fighting against fascism in Europe." There's 0 doubt everyone would see that as a state-sponsored terror attack and an attack on a German state - an act of war.

    • Gud 10 months ago

      If AfD were firing rockets into Russia, Russia would have every right to retaliate.

    • Log_out_ 10 months ago

      Why would russia attack its puppets ?

    • raxxorraxor 10 months ago

      Didn't you forgot the part where the AfD would fire thousands of rockets into Russia just this year?

      Hezbollah formed a party later for political reasons. It exists to attack Israel and Israel is more than allowed to defend itself and that includes such offensives.

      Are you actually serious with this comparison? Because frankly, this is beyond uninformed.

  • imtringued 10 months ago

    There is no such thing as a Hezbollah pager. They are gold Apollo pagers. It is completely normal for doctors to have pagers.

    • gregw2 10 months ago

      i thought Hezbollah had their own broadcast pager network for their pagers for security reasons. a trigger sent out on that frequency would only affect Hezbollah, no?

      • a_dabbler 10 months ago

        We don't know how exactly how the trigger mechanism worked. It was an import of pager batteries that were intercepted and replaced, it's plausible that someone else using a pager in the country would be affected if they had received a pager battery from the same batch

jollofricepeas 10 months ago

Agreed.

A targeted strike against enemy combatants (with minimal civilian deaths) is LEGAL WAR.

Indiscriminate booby traps into a civilian population (regardless of the original buyer) is definitely TERRORISM.

At this point, Israel’s detractors will say morally it’s no different than Hamas.

The dropping of bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima was TERRORISM as well as well as the fire bombing of London and Dresden.

myth_drannon 10 months ago

lies. You can see the official Hizbollocs funeral pamphlets, they are all terrorists