Israel detonates Hezbollah walkie-talkies in second wave after pager attack

So, what Israel is admitting here, is that they could individually pinpoint and target Hamas but instead carpet bombed Palestine into genocide.

If this was the other way around, we'd have global outrage, days of mourning and piles of new weapons for Israel right now. We'd be speaking about one of the worst terrorist attacks in history.

Oh look, terrorism.

Five years ago, if you had asked me if Israel would be committing terrorist attacks across Palestine, Lebanon and beyond, I would have said absolutely not.

I would have been wrong, even back then, but jesus fucking christ, what an absolute shambles.

How my government supports this state-sponsored terrorism is beyond me.

Call it for what it is, a terrorist attack.

The media condemned political violence against Trump in unison one month ago.

Israel commits one of the biggest terrorist attacks against a Lebanese political organization in history and the media claps.

Lotta Hezbollah flags in that crowd, was that some kind of funeral procession from yesterday’s pagers?

This is a super-villain plan becoming a reality.

If this carries on, we'll have exploding semaphore flags by the end of the week.

Shit, we use the same radios at work. Hope no-one blew up.

I saw this on Reddit first while I was checking my city subreddit, damn the headline there definitely gives a different impression.

(The comments are all mostly jokes, didn't even bother wading through them and came to see If Lemmy had a thread instead).

Someone tell them the Palm Pilots aren't safe either

So if I understand correctly, Israel managed to get a bunch of people in Hezbollah to use pagers and walkie talkies that contained bombs. But they have not been able to gather enough intelligence from control of those communication devices to find and rescue the remaining hostages? And if they weren’t able to catch useful information from those devices, why did the people holding those devices deserve to get blown up?

Booby-trapped walkie-talkies and pagers.

This reminds me of when during sieges during the Middle Ages they used to lob the bodies of the dead back inside the castle. I'm not sure if it's because of the lines they've crossed over and ignored regarding civilian casualties on this, or that this will essentially cause other parties to cross those same lines. This is giving ideas to China and Russia, and humanity has been far shittier in the past, I really don't want to see how bad we will regress to.

Ok, guys, after the pager thing, I am pretty sure walkie talkies are next. Like that's really An obvious one.

I don't have any ideas on what next. Landline phones probably.

Owch that couch Pic.

Well that seems like it will escalate things…

What are the odds Hezbolah take some action that provokes Israel to invade and create a northern “buffer zone” like Gaza?

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You do love to see it

They are popping like popcorn lmao

These guys were still carrying these pagers to the funeral of the last group getting killed by their pagers? 200 IQ move.

It's even funnier the second time

Terrorists killing terrorists... Nice. Seriously... what is next? Exploding toilet seats with verses from quran, issued last ramadan only to elite hezbollah members?

Based Israel. I never liked them but honestly this is genius. I am starting to love them

Ok, on the one hand, yes, blowing up Hamas is funny.

OTOH, this is not cool, bombing random people is a problem.

The US has this wonderful system called the Hellfire R-9X which is basically a flying slap-chop that ginzus a single target with 9 pop-out blades. Can we hand a couple over to the IDF and Mossad so they stop randomly blowing up parts of Lebanon?

It's not killing Hamas that's the issue, it's the collateral.