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Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured as devices explode
- yamrzou 2y ago[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567299
- dang 2y agoComments moved thither. Thanks!
- mplewis 2y ago[flagged]
- Slava_Propanei 2y ago[dead]
- paxys 2y agoTitle should change from dozens to thousands (https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwyl9048gx8t https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwyl9048gx8t). And there's no indication that all of them were Hezbollah members.
- switch007 2y agoYes as it stands it's propaganda. Expected given the source
- j4coh 2y agoThe source is also updated.
- switch007 2y agoCould you be more specific?
- j4coh 2y agoThe source, Times of Israel, who provided the liveblog linked to at the top of this thread. They said dozens at the same time sources like Reuters also said dozens, then later they said thousands around the same time other sources did - including at the time of your reply. You can see for yourself on their home page: https://www.timesofisrael.com/several-killed-thousands-hurt-as-wave-of-pager-explosions-strikes-hezbollah/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/several-killed-thousands-hurt-...
- switch007 2y agoI was referring to the article, linked by this post. You highlighting another part of the website trying to do a "gotcha" is quite disingenuous
- j4coh 2y agoThe link in the post is to a specific point in a live blog. It will forever and always be a snapshot of that moment in time, as you can see at the top of that page. Here’s a link to a moment in time when Reuters was also reporting dozens, they of course also updated since then: https://x.com/Reuters/status/1836031152869581310 https://x.com/Reuters/status/1836031152869581310
- cloudwonderer 2y agoWhy Times of Israel isn't a legit source? It reports on main news in the region. Given a location of the newspaper in a democratic country and being it mainstream news in Israel, I don't see a reason to classify it as propaganda source. If you compare it to Al Jazeera which isn't published in a democratic country, which one would you believe?
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- dotancohen 2y ago> And there's no indication that all of them were Hezbollah members. Hezbollah runs a parallel communications network in Lebanon. Nobody but Hezbollah members would have these devices or even be able to connect to the network, In the Arabic news, which I read as well, there are reports of an 8 year old girl killed. Other than that, it seems that 10 to 12 Hezbollah operatives were killed and over 2700 injured - 1000 seriously. That is a calculated risk that civilians will be injured or killed. Hezbollah recently bombed a playground in Israel and killed 12 or 13 children playing football. So if this attack prevents just one additional successful Hezbollah attack it is a net win. You should know that most of the north of Israel have been evacuated for months due to Hezbollah fire. They rain dozens to hundreds of missiles on Israel every day, for almost an entire year now.
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- almogo 2y agoJeez :/
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- dotancohen 2y agoWhat of my reply do you consider propaganda, Mr 1equalsequals1, if that is your real name?
- _aaed 2y agoFirst off, what makes Israel's efforts/existence legitimate but Hezbollah's/Hamas's/Houthi's illegitimate? To start with Israel is an occupying power (illegally by definition), a bully and a terrorist state (by the historical record), so any counteraction to such depravity certainly has more legitimacy. Second, you mention the children casualties, after the Majdal Shams attack, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. You should know that the Druze community despise the Israeli government and asked that no government ministers attend the funeral. But you try to use their deaths as a pretext for more deaths. As if the more than 40,000 direct deaths (the number of indirect deaths is possibly in the hundreds of thousands) of civilians and children in Gaza weren't enough. That's just for starters. I'll add a third point and stop here. If similar measures were to be taken to make sure that the state you support will never again kill or terrorise, Israel would be no more
- cloudwonderer 2y agoThere is a significant evidence that these specifically targeted pagers were used by Hezbollah only. I don't think there is much reason for Israel to blatantly blow up random pagers. Israel isn't fighting the Lebanese people, but specifically fighting against Hezbollah
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- whoiscroberts 2y agoWere these compromised during supply chain, small explosives inserted. Or were they able to make the factory standard batteries explode, some sort of zero day to control the charging circuitry?
- lobsterthief 2y agoFactory batteries couldn’t have exploded with that much force. Military grade explosives were also recovered from some unexploded devices.
- qwertywert_ 2y ago[flagged]