That's like planting a bomb in front of a military camp. You might have a target, but in the end you just kill whoever was nearby at that time. In the case of the pager attack, that includes children aged 11 and 12, as well as a nurse.

That's much closer to a terrorist attack than to legal warfare.

There might be some potential legal defense in terms of proportionality of collateral damage but it's so thin here as to be absurd.

Regardless, given the number of war crimes this army has been found guilty of, this is somewhat moot. What's another war crime in the grand scheme of things.

Many of the people who had the pagers were doctors, lawyers, bureaucrats...

Maybe I'm wrong, but, I think Hezb0-lla-h is pretty much the "government", especially in southern Lebanon

You cannot quarantee who is holding the pager at the moment of explosion.

“Expected” is not enough. These bombs didn’t go off in active war zone. They went off in public in Lebanon, and maimed and killed civilians.

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