Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law, United Nations rights chief says

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Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law, United Nations rights chief says
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Several of the victims were children. They went off in crowds. There was no way they could control that many devices with precision when they set them off all at once like that.

https://x.com/osint613/status/1837614316335648888?s=46

Here’s an example of how targeted the strike was, despite literally going off in a crowd - nobody hurt but the intended target, no harm whatsoever beyond two feet. Doesn’t even bruise an apple

That particular pager was in a bag, against a person, pointed away from anyone or anything else. Not to mention anything of the second attack, which used much larger charges and started fires and blew out windows across Lebanon.

And anyway, a single example isn't going to assuage anyone who has been reading reports of women and children dying from the attack.

They're also ignoring the literal terror being experienced by civilians who witnessed people's legs and faces being blown off in public.

That's terrorism.

That particular pager was in a bag, against a person, pointed away from anyone or anything else.

Where else would you carry a pager? You have to feel it when it vibrates.

Not to mention anything of the second attack, which used much larger charges and started fires and blew out windows across Lebanon.

Well, I’m sorry to hear that Lebanon’s glazers just got several months of guaranteed work, I guess, but I’m otherwise not sure why this is relevant.

And anyway, a single example isn't going to assuage anyone who has been reading reports of women and children dying from the attack.

What reports?

I’m otherwise not sure why this is relevant.

Because you were claiming the explosions were too small to "bruise and apple"

What reports?

Literally any reports on the subject

Because you were claiming the explosions were too small to "bruise and apple"

ok, and how is that refuted by the physical description of an ambulance?

What the fuck are you smoking

You posted a description of an ambulance, down to the color of its lights and the presence of people standing nearby looking on.

What was the relevance of that?

The mental gymnastics people will do to defend literal state sponsored terrorism.

And don't waste your time, I actually know what those words mean.

Yes, it’s pretty shocking how people have come out in support of an Iranian-funded terrorist group that has killed women, children, and a hundred Americans

As opposed to the American-funded terrorist state that has killed women, children and a couple thousands of Palestinian civilians?

Several of the victims were children.

The fathers of these dead children will simply have to live with the terrible consequences of their involvement with antisemitic terror (who are we kidding, they don’t care.)

They went off in crowds.

In every such case only the agent was harmed. You’re proving how targeted the attack was.

The fathers of these dead children will simply have to live with the terrible consequences of their involvement with antisemitic terror

So the children have to pay for their father's crimes? This isn't really a justification, and they don't not care, now they have a real reason for retaliation—starting the cycle of hate all over again.

So the children have to pay for their father's crimes?

No, they don’t have to. But they will when their fathers deliberately put them in danger.

Again, he’ll just have to live with the tragic consequences (just kidding, we know he doesn’t care.)

And you complain about pro Israel accounts getting banned. Literally justifying the murder of children should be banable no matter what county you're supporting. Despicable behavior that everyone now sadly expects from rabid genocide supporters.

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The kid's blood is still on whoever triggered the devices hands. The child didn't do anything.

Do you have a source stating that no bystanders were harmed? I can't find anything making that claim.

Do you have a source stating that no bystanders were harmed?

They keep citing a tweet while others keep refuting what they're saying with articles from BBC, NPR, and other news outlets. There's no point in arguing with someone that can't provide reputable sources for their claims.

*Edit: typo

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