• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    2 months ago

    Likely because the bulk of those wounded by this attack were not Hezbollah

    I don’t even know how you’d reasonably expect to only injure your targets in an attack as widespread and remote as this one. Seems blatantly indiscriminate at best.

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      Likely because the bulk of those wounded by this attack were not Hezbollah

      What makes you think that? These pagers were bought by Hesbollah to be used by their guys.

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        These pagers were bought by Hesbollah

        All we know is that a bunch of exploding pagers were distributed through Lebanon. The IDF claims they were given to Hezbollah agents, but they’ve been caught lying regularly.

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        Uhhh, because these were bombs - bombs that were remotely and indiscriminately detonated. Some of the people were driving, some standing next to children or on busses full of people. There are reports of children who died because they were standing next to a target at head-level with the pager.There’s no guarantee they were even being carried by “Hezbollah’s guys”.

        I don’t even know why anyone would assume otherwise. This was a loosely targeted terror attack