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Ex-Mossad Agents Reveal How They Turned Hezbollah's Devices into Bombs
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- mharig 2y agoNobody is mentioning the elephant in the room: for sure many of the pagers where brought aboard commercial flights. So Israel seems to have an explosive that cannot be detected by the airport security, or they can confine usual explosives in a way that makes it undetectable by the standard means.
- pxmpxm 2y agoIs it that, or hezbollah goes out of their way to not take those pagers on a plane for opsec reasons? The latter would strike me as more likely.
- RicoElectrico 2y agoIsn't it the case that some explosives can only be detected due to the introduction of "taggants" at the production stage?
- nielsbot 2y agoSeems in airports they’re trying to detect oxidizers? (Among other things) I can’t bring my hydrogen peroxide contact solution through security.
- sschueller 2y agoWe are writing about this like it is something to awe over when it's clearly a war crime. If Russia or China was the one that did this it would be written about completely differently. Can't wait for this to be made into a movie where the hero is the one that killed innocent civilians. /s
- viciousvoxel 2y ago[flagged]
- 4gotunameagain 2y agoArticles 51 and 54, Protocol I, Geneva conventions: ..outlaw indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations, and destruction of food sources, water, and other materials needed for survival. This include directly attacking civilian (non-military) targets, but also using technologies whose scope of destruction cannot be limited. A total war that does not distinguish between civilian and military targets is considered a war crime. It is pretty clear that you cannot control not only who receives a pager, but also who is near a person with a pager. There are multiple clips circulating where the pager bombs went off in public, and multiple stories about the pager bombs going off inside peoples houses. Imagine being at a grocery store and a bomb goes off next to you. You couldn't have escaped the warzone because you are trapped. Imagine if this has happened to IDF fighters, how it would be portrayed. This is clearly terrorism.
- nailer 2y agoThey actually tested for people standing nearby terrorists to ensure they’re not injured. That’s in the documentary. Anyway well done the IDF for making the Middle East a better place without Hezbollah.
- pxmpxm 2y agoIf you redefine exploding pagers issued strictly to members of the organization you're trying to eliminate as indiscriminate, what does that even leave as disriminate targetting? Feels like an entirely disingenuous line of argument; i don't like israel therefore _______
- immibis 2y agoThe issue is that the pagers did not solely belong to terrorist organizations. Just like all the missiles hitting apartment buildings in Gaza didn't hit apartment buildings where only terrorists lived. Why are we still believing this line of no collateral damage? (I suppose we could interpret that the damage still occurred but was not collateral - that would imply it was purposeful)