10-year-old Fatima Jaafar Abdullah was killed in pager explosions in Lebanon.

Israel murders another kid again.

  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I have a some question(s).

    Did all pagers in Lebanon just explode or was it only targeted pagers of terrorists that exploded? where they rigged with explosives? how can such a small device in the hands of so few people hurt so many people if they were not rigged with explosives? Was it only terrorist using pagers or is this still a thing i Lebanon?

              • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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                9 hours ago

                it wasn’t though.

                they deliberately set off an explosive device with no notion as to where that device or who else it was around. This was a deliberate act, and the way their using them, the chaos and “collateral damage” isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.

                • oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org
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                  9 hours ago

                  Pagers are usually carried by the owners, which in this case were Hezbollah combatants. So they knew where they were.

                  The chaos is intended. Collateral damage has no benefit.

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                    8 hours ago

                    Even if you take the assumption for granted, no. They did not know any such thing. At all.

                    First off, lets talk about the assumption- that the pager was issued to, and in the possession off, a hezbollah member.

                    That’s it. That’s as far as they “knew”, and it’s really just an assumption. For all mossad knew, a few got passed around to friends or family. You know. “For their safety”, or something.

                    Now onto how there was no knowledge of where those IEDs were physically located. Pagers are passive receivers. The pager network sends a signal, then pagers receive it and display a number or whatever.

                    They don’t always do two-way communication, and given their reason for buying them… I doubt these are. Which means the pagers are entirely passive and probably would work over most the globe. As long as the pager (which is the receiver) is in range of its broadcast tower network (which probably includes satellites,) then they work.

                    There’s a reason they’re used by emergency services, and it’s that drop-dead-simplicity and reliability.

                    So no. Mossad or whoever did not know where rhe fucking bombs were. All they knew was that they were likely to be physically near targets of interest.

                    But they had know way of knowing who had which pager (probably.) or where that pager was, or who else was around that pager.

                    In short this is as indiscriminate as Russia’s use of cluster munitions on cities. It’s absolutely terrorism.

                    We’d be starting WW 3 if hezbollah or hamas did this to Israel. So why are we tolerating this from Israel?

          • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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            22 hours ago

            Or maybe she died because she was young and small.

            You and all the people upvoting you are fucking insane. Justifying a little girl during like this is peak American coping mechanisms.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
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      1 day ago

      Hezbollah decided to switch to using pagers because you can’t track them. Not sure if anyone else (eg. Medical personnel) was also using them.