Israeli prime minister admits responsibility for mass pager explosions in Lebanon

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Israeli prime minister admits responsibility for mass pager explosions in Lebanon
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Have you seen the videos of said explosions in crowded places? Single people drop and the people around them seem more or less unaffected.

As of 22 September 2024, the death toll from the attacks was 42,[7] including at least 12 civilian deaths.[107] More than 3,500 people were injured.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_electronic_device_attacks#Casualties

Two of those civilians were children. Two others were healthcare workers.

So as he said: very precise

When they crushed IS in Raqqa it was about 1,5 civilians for each IS bro

I really don't think you understand what "precise" means.

It means only killing the people you intended to kill.

Hey that's like, your opinion bro.

You're thinking about '100% precise'

War is never 100% precise. Hezbollah themselves cause 0.7 civilian casualties for every IDF/Israeli police they manage to kill in this conflict

"They killed more" is not an excuse for killing children. Precision attacks also don't kill children. I'm not sure why you don't realize those things.

As far as "100% precision," Israel seems to be able to do that just fine when they want to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_assassinations

You don't go inside Lebanon and assassinate thousands of militants, that's just an impossible expectation

Maybe in your magical fairy world you can, but in the real world 2 dead kids from 3.000 strikes would be considered very precise

It's quite dishonest to act like that it was only 2 dead kids and ignore the thousands of wounded and the other 10 dead people. Especially when a link you yourself showed people says so.

Misinformation is not allowed in c/worldnews.

I'm not acting like those were the only civilian casualties. It's just what's brought up all the time. 'Thousands' of civilians wounded seems very unlikely when there's only <3.000 of these devices going off and the extent of the explosions visible from the leaked footage. Reeks of misinformation if you ask me

This is from the link you provided.

More than 3,500 people were injured.

So now you're saying we can't trust the link you gave us?

But it's you that's suggesting those injured are all civilians

If not, how many of them are?

Now your claim is that most or all of the 3500 injured were terrorists? Really?

Well if they had around 3.000 pagers exploding...

I'm kidding, of course!

All 3.000 Hezbros (bar the 30 that died) must have already passed their secure one-way pagers handed to them by the Hezbollah leadership on to unsuspecting civilians. After all, who wouldn't want to be carrying around a mysterious one-way pager that periodically shows you cryptic messages?? "Hello Nighthawk. Ze goats are riding ze bicycles. I repeat: ze goats are..." KABOOOM

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Do you think that you get injured like that and immediately just plop on the ground? That's not how it works.

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