Hezbollah hand-held radios explode, killing three, one day after pager blasts(reuters.com)
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Hezbollah hand-held radios explode, killing three, one day after pager blasts
https://www.reuters.com/world/hezbollah-pager-explosions-live-2024-09-17/
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Let me get this straight.
* A west-aligned country is at war with a terrorist organization which is part of the Russian-Iranian-North Korean axis of evil.
* A war which the terrorist organization started unprovoked
* The ally country conducts the most precise strike against militant combatants in history (also completely legal by my understanding of international rules of war)
* Your suggestion is that they should've confiscated their walkie talkies instead
* A west-aligned country is at war with a terrorist organization which is part of the Russian-Iranian-North Korean axis of evil.
* A war which the terrorist organization started unprovoked
* The ally country conducts the most precise strike against militant combatants in history (also completely legal by my understanding of international rules of war)
* Your suggestion is that they should've confiscated their walkie talkies instead
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At the superficial level of the news reports about this event, booby-trapping incidental items to render life and limb across a wide field and a diffuse population doesn't sound like legitimate combat under civilized conduct in warfare; it sounds like text-book terrorism in the lexicon of the U.S.
In my view the crucial question for a society is how does action represent our values and sense of responsibility. In such regards, Israel is far gone off its reservation.