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Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say
(www.nytimes.com)
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I mean I'm no fan of Israel, but Hezbollah ain't exactly the Red Cross.
It also isn't a state.
with Israel clearly having the greater outreach, destructive power and perhaps even less self regulation than Hezbollah as it seems.
And, frankly, this is one of the least morally concerning things Israel has (presumably) done. The pagers were targeted specifically because they were used almost exclusively by Hezbollah.
Dude they injured thousands of people and killed children and health care workers. This is 100% terrorism. I guess it's a better than the active genocide they're doing though, so it's a low bar.
They were not exclusively used by Hezbollah.
Also, you're equating a government with it's militant wing.
Is it proper to call an Israeli Doctor a member of IDF? That is what you are doing.
Hospital administrators (A government position for non insane countries) are Hezbollah.
Yeah that's a fair point wrt non-militant roles, my assumption was that they were primarily used in the military since their purpose was to avoid the issues with mobile networks being used to track them.
But we don't know exactly how the devices were distributed, so you're right that there were potentially a large number of non-military Hezbollah staff.
They've been doing the same for Hamas. Hospital administrator? Hamas. And so Israel bombs out their apartment killing them and their entire family. You know, back when there were apartments.
Same for police.
That one is what gives away Israels genocidal intent. Getting rid of police gets rid of the first line of defense against civil disorder, and the people most likely to do stuff like distribute food and supplies.
Police very rarely end up fighting as militantsin occupied countries, too. Unless you fire them en masse, which occupying countries shouldn't do, if they're smart.
Edit: We do know multiple EMT teams and doctors were hit by the beepers.
probably more civilians than the targeted number of Hezbollah militant members died, orders of magnitude more wounded, crippled etc. success?