Israeli prime minister admits responsibility for mass pager explosions in Lebanon

Who's the terrorist now?

The others!!!
- Now?
Hezbollah
- 🤡
You're saying it was not targeted at combatants, or that there was a lot of collateral damage?
- Two health workers and two children were killed, many from the civilian branch of the governent were injured (which were blatantly categorized as Hizbullah fighters). Even if not a single civilian were killed or hurt, some of these pagers exploded in grocery stores and other public spaces effectively terrorizing and traumatizing the local population.
  So yes, it was a terrorist attack. Recently, Israeli occupation in Gaza was added to the list of genocides in wikipedia, this should be added as a list of terrorist attacks in the middle east.
- Are those the only requirements you think make something an act of terror?
- It's explicitly a war crime, whether or not it was "targeted".
  https://lieber.westpoint.edu/exploding-pagers-law/
- Congratulations on being able to put on two matching socks today. I know it must have been challenging for you, but you persevered!

I mean it didn't take a genius to figure it out.

Guiltier than a Russian standing next to a pot of polonium tea.

Or a kgb agent in the hotel room next to someone that just fell out of the window

Interesting he feels clear to admit this after Trump is elected.

The Kamala administration was going to sanction them for being related to this event.
- /s?

Is this not explicitly a massive violation of international law and war crime?

Yes it is, and not because of whether the attacks were targeted.
“It is prohibited to use booby-traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects which are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material.”
This is a US West Point essay BTW.

I mean no shock that he would carry out a plan to kill people indiscriminately. What I wonder is if he could get the devices into their hands to carry out this attack, what else have they sold to Hezbollah?

It's awesome to kill civilians in a terrorist attack?
- Zios going mask off.

How can Israel be so precise and effective when they attack Lebanon, but in Gaza they have to kill mostly civilians to get to Hamas

The pagers weren't precise at all.
- More precise than dropping a bomb on an appartment building, I suppose...
  But, yeah, not the best example of preventing collateral damage.
- Do you have any info on this? I couldn't find any info on the target Vs civilian rate of the attqck. Not even how many were targeted. Only some media coverage of single civilian stories and innocent children getting hit. I assume this is inevitable in a large scale operation like this. But, from the videos available, it seemed like the explosives had very limited radius, where even people standing next to the targets were not hit or even knocked over!
  Compare that to flattening entire cities, to get to the targets, i'd call it pretty precise!
It wasn't precise. It was explosives in pagers and radios that went off in public and crowded places.
- Have you seen the videos of said explosions in crowded places? Single people drop and the people around them seem more or less unaffected.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_electronic_device_attacks#International_law
Ends don't justify means, indiscriminate attacks risking civilian lives is a war crime by international law. Simultaneously exploding thousands of pagers where you have no way of assuring who possesses the pagers and where it explodes is indiscriminate as explained by many experts on the topic. Wishful thinking does not change anything.
You'll have your answer as soon as Hamas places an order for a few thousand pagers