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0 pointsborski1y ago0 comments

It is targeted, by definition. Every pager was owned by a Hezbollah member or was about to be. Same with the walkies.

That there was collateral damage is unfortunate, but Israel was definitely not indiscriminately targeting civilians, which is what would make it terrorism.

This was a surgical strike that happened to have some unfortunate collateral damage. Well within the accepted rules of war.

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ivan_gammel1y ago· 3 in thread

It was not unfortunate collateral damage in the sense of unknown unknown. Civilian casualties must have been anticipated and nothing has been done to prevent them. It is not „accepted“ rules of war, but normalized disregard of human life.

borskiOP1y ago

Once again: watch any of the videos. The vast majority of them involve anyone standing around the operative walking away just fine. This was a targeted attack.

Some civilians got hurt, but the intent was not to harm them, and that is the point.

anigbrowl1y ago

While it seems few bystanders suffered physical injuries, it's naive imho to think that this won't cause enormously elevated fear among the population at large. 'Koolaid' is still synonymous with mass cult poisoning in the US even though that incident happened ~50 years ago in a different country. Everyone in Lebanon is having nightmares about random electronic devices turning out to be bombs, even though they know that's logically not the case. Just like people in New York feel differently about seeing airliners than they did before 9-11.

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ivan_gammel1y ago

> Once again: watch any of the videos

What makes you think that I did not watch them? And why do you think a few videos circulating online are representative of a few thousands explosions?

> Some civilians got hurt, but the intent was not to harm them

What makes „some“ any different than a hundred or a million? How can you be certain of the intent if civilian casualties were/should have been anticipated?

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