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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Abandoning booby-trapped radios into an active war zone for uniformed enemy soldiers to pick up is not the same as infiltrating the supply chain to sell booby-trapped devices to "I hope these end up in the hands of people I don't like, but if civilians end up with them, oh well."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When the radios are passed over during this conflict, they'll still be dangerous in the following period where children will get them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

That's no kids toy btw, it's a fairly expensive Motorola radio for clarification.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those were encrypted beepers that were sold directly to Hezbollah. It wasn't exactly a shotgun shot in a dark

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While the attack may have targeted pagers used by Hezbollah, that doesn’t necessarily mean that those in possession of them were armed militants. “Hezbollah is obviously the fighting wing, but Hezbollah is [also] a political party, it’s a charity organization, it’s a civil societal movement as well,” says Krieg. “And so this pager system would have been distributed among civilians as well—people who are not fighters, who are not contributing to the war effort, and they were targeted as well.”

“Simultaneous targeting of thousands of individuals, whether civilians or members of armed groups, without knowledge as to who was in possession of the targeted devices, their location and their surroundings at the time of the attack, violates international human rights law and, to the extent applicable, international humanitarian law,” Volker Turk, the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that those who ordered and carried out the attacks “must be held to account.”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

So targeting a US Army truck driver would be bad in your eyes? He's not armed, basically a civilian.