alt Hacker NewsA targeted attack on members of Hezbollah, which was designated as a terrorist organization by 27 countries, including one where I live as they were shelling Israel with rockets that killed amongst others 12 druze kids in 2024.
Yeah, totally a war crime against innocent civilians.
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It wasn't a targeted attack since they had no way of knowing where the pagers would end up in the second-hand market, as they were only activated years later.
The pager operation was definitely the most impressive one I know in modern day.
27 out of 190 countries is far from “international consensus” and does not legitimize attacks on the group in sovereign territory. don’t justify the security hack as legitimate. If Israel penetrated a security perimeter of a group that breach becomes a threat to all people everywhere
Tell me you don't care about the Geneva convention without telling me you've probably never read the Geneva convention.
Extra-judicial murder through out of control deployment of weapons via subterfuge is terrorism, also. The idea that it was a 'targeted attack' is risible. Civilians died in those indiscriminate attacks - which were terrorist in nature and deed.
Except yes, indeed, we label it a war crime, in civilised society - and we seek justice for the war criminals in terms of prison sentences. Not dismemberment and maiming.
You can justify atrocities all you want. Getting called out for war crimes is the price to be paid for such 'cleverness', however.
Or else, you know, everyone will start doing it, not just those who have deemed themselves uniquely worthy of the act .. and we can't have that now, can we...
It harmed and killed civilians. 28% of the victims killed were civilian. An additional 4,000 civilians were injured - disfigured, permanently disabled, etc.
The method was a war crime. You appear to be defending war crimes as justifiable.
I mean the world takes the view Israel is occupying and slowly invading more regions of Palestine.
I didn't make it up, the Balfour declaration makes it pretty clear, so if you're upset natives are attacking you what's your point exactly.
Anyway, point is Israel has almost always lied throughout it's genocide against Palestinians. The IOF has lied or distorted the truth in almost every statement, one which always comes to mind is the attack on the Christian hospital.
The Israeli government are liars, they have a whole online army dedicated to misinformation and the 5 D's. For them lying is just another effective weapon of war which must be utilised.
> Former CIA director Leon Panetta labeled last week’s deadly pager explosions in Lebanon a form of “terrorism.”
> “I don’t think there’s any question that it’s a form of terrorism,” Panetta said on “CBS News Sunday morning.”
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4893900-leon-panett...
I don't take anything Leon Panetta says as gospel, but the fact that someone like him says this shows how the position is not ludicrous in the way you and other similar replies are painting it.