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Israel detonates Hezbollah walkie-talkies in second wave after pager attack (www.axios.com)

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The sound of many of them exploding

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[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 193 points 3 weeks ago

So, what Israel is admitting here, is that they could individually pinpoint and target Hamas but instead carpet bombed Palestine into genocide.

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 144 points 3 weeks ago

supply chain attacks are dirty tactics too, they have no idea who is holding 3000 pagers when detonation.

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[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 72 points 3 weeks ago

They literally knew about the attack before it happened. Genocide was always the primary goal.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 17 points 3 weeks ago

Israel is obviously behind the attacks but has not taken responsibility for them yet. So no, they're not admitting anything.

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[-] dlatch@lemmy.world 161 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If this was the other way around, we'd have global outrage, days of mourning and piles of new weapons for Israel right now. We'd be speaking about one of the worst terrorist attacks in history.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago

Bingo.

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[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 161 points 3 weeks ago

Oh look, terrorism.

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 52 points 3 weeks ago

No , see when THEY do it, it is terrorism; when WE do it ……….

[-] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 36 points 3 weeks ago

This flippant accusation misses the grander issue.

If Israel is capable of precisely targeting enemy military like this, then why are there 35k dead in Gaza?

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago

It's a good point

But the accusation isn't flippant. That's exactly what this is.

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[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago

Is it precise? From the pager terror attacks only 9 or killed, maybe 2 of them "fighters", at least 1 child, 2700+ wounded including medical staff and other innocent people. That's not exactly precise in my books.

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[-] Navarian@lemm.ee 123 points 3 weeks ago

Five years ago, if you had asked me if Israel would be committing terrorist attacks across Palestine, Lebanon and beyond, I would have said absolutely not.

I would have been wrong, even back then, but jesus fucking christ, what an absolute shambles.

How my government supports this state-sponsored terrorism is beyond me.

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[-] febra@lemmy.world 49 points 3 weeks ago

Call it for what it is, a terrorist attack.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 46 points 3 weeks ago

Lotta Hezbollah flags in that crowd, was that some kind of funeral procession from yesterday’s pagers?

[-] Sami@lemmy.zip 54 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, a funeral procession for 4 members.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 41 points 3 weeks ago

Exponential funeral growth.

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[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 46 points 3 weeks ago

The media condemned political violence against Trump in unison one month ago.

Israel commits one of the biggest terrorist attacks against a Lebanese political organization in history and the media claps.

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[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 41 points 3 weeks ago

This is a super-villain plan becoming a reality.

[-] A7thStone@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 32 points 3 weeks ago

If this carries on, we'll have exploding semaphore flags by the end of the week.

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[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 weeks ago

Shit, we use the same radios at work. Hope no-one blew up.

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 weeks ago

I saw this on Reddit first while I was checking my city subreddit, damn the headline there definitely gives a different impression.

(The comments are all mostly jokes, didn't even bother wading through them and came to see If Lemmy had a thread instead).

[-] goferking0 19 points 3 weeks ago

R/worldnews? It's completely run by zionists. Anything critical or Israel or pro Palestinian gets instantly nuked

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[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 weeks ago

Someone tell them the Palm Pilots aren't safe either

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[-] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago

So if I understand correctly, Israel managed to get a bunch of people in Hezbollah to use pagers and walkie talkies that contained bombs. But they have not been able to gather enough intelligence from control of those communication devices to find and rescue the remaining hostages? And if they weren’t able to catch useful information from those devices, why did the people holding those devices deserve to get blown up?

[-] Rolder@reddthat.com 42 points 3 weeks ago

Hezbollah operates out of Lebanon, and the hostages are in Gaza? They have nothing to do with each other…

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[-] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 20 points 3 weeks ago

You are forgetting one simple fact. They don’t care about the hostages.

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