▲ 424 ▼ Israel detonates Hezbollah walkie-talkies in second wave after pager attack (www.axios.com) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Wilshire@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world 206 comments fedilink hide all child comments The sound of many of them exploding
[+] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk -17 points 2 years ago* (3 children) It is absolutely terrorism Too early to tell, but likely not most of the people hit by them were in plain clothes oh good, if i find myself an active combatant in a war-zone i should just chuck on a t-shirt. including a child Regrettable but civilian casualties in a war-zone are inevitable people were just seeing other (presumably you meant to put "people" here) randomly exploding they weren't randoms, at the moment it seems they were Hezbollah and are adding strain to hospitals That'll happen when a large number of combatants are taken out at once permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] cafeinux@infosec.pub 11 points 2 years ago I think the point was that, for the people around, this was undistinguishable from suicide bombers, which are usually considered as terrorists. Terrorism is meant to inspire terror and insecurity. This did exactly that. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago Human Rights Watch called it unlawful: Customary international humanitarian lawprohibits the use of booby traps – objects that civilians are likely to be attracted to or are associated with normal civilian daily use – precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk and produce the devastating scenes that continue to unfold across Lebanon today. The use of an explosive device whose exact location could not be reliably known would be unlawfully indiscriminate, using a means of attack that could not be directed at a specific military target and as a result would strike military targets and civilians without distinction. permalink fedilink source parent [–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 years ago* (1 child) There is no "war-zone". There are no "combatants". There's just genocidal terrorists murdering civilians in several different states. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago Hezbollah have been firing rockets into israel for months, it absolutely is a warzone permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cafeinux@infosec.pub 11 points 2 years ago I think the point was that, for the people around, this was undistinguishable from suicide bombers, which are usually considered as terrorists. Terrorism is meant to inspire terror and insecurity. This did exactly that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago Human Rights Watch called it unlawful: Customary international humanitarian lawprohibits the use of booby traps – objects that civilians are likely to be attracted to or are associated with normal civilian daily use – precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk and produce the devastating scenes that continue to unfold across Lebanon today. The use of an explosive device whose exact location could not be reliably known would be unlawfully indiscriminate, using a means of attack that could not be directed at a specific military target and as a result would strike military targets and civilians without distinction. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 years ago* (1 child) There is no "war-zone". There are no "combatants". There's just genocidal terrorists murdering civilians in several different states. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago Hezbollah have been firing rockets into israel for months, it absolutely is a warzone permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago Hezbollah have been firing rockets into israel for months, it absolutely is a warzone permalink fedilink source parent
