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ColinC

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24. Interesting

Reply to MarineCombatEngineer (Reply #22)

Thu Sep 19, 2024, 09:05 AM

Sep 2024

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/hezbollah-vows-reckoning-after-thousands-lebanon-injured-exploding/story?id=113798347

At least 20 more people were killed and 450 injured in Lebanon on Wednesday after a series of new explosions of wireless devices rocked the South, the Bekaa and the southern suburbs of Beirut, according to the Ministry of Health and the Lebanese Red Cross.

Ten Hezbollah members were among those killed on Wednesday, the group confirmed.

So you have at best in the last attack 50% success rate. But that isn’t if you add what happened on Tuesday:

At least 12 civilians were killed and at least 2,800 people injured in the explosions that took place Tuesday,

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Human Rights Watch: Pager Attack is "Unlawfully Indiscriminate" [View all] onandup Sep 2024 OP

LOL Skittles Sep 2024 #1

Oh Israel should just let Hezballa Bomb them for Cha Sep 2024 #2

These were booby traps? Igel Sep 2024 #4

Lulz DeepWinter Sep 2024 #20

Dark humor, but highly appreciated by this DU'er. MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #45

so nice you find the entire mess a big joke Skittles Sep 2024 #56

Terrorism doesn't suddenly stop becoming terrorism just because a government is doing it. ColinC Sep 2024 #3

Yet strangely enough I haven't heard nearly the uproar here regarding 11 months of bombings by Hezbollah against Israel Hekate Sep 2024 #8

The attacks across the border have been mutual with Israel exacting a much larger death toll (around 500) ColinC Sep 2024 #10

No, we're CELEBRATING the killing and maiming of Hizbollah terrorists. MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #12

A gross generalization that seems to include healthcare workers and children ColinC Sep 2024 #13

What were health care workers doing with Hizbollah pagers? MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #15

Duh! malaise Sep 2024 #5

Well, it's an improvement over bombing hospitals, I guess. alarimer Sep 2024 #6

And by ultra-Orthodox lunatics expecting the Messiah any day now. (nt) Pinback Sep 2024 #30

At least they don't celebrate some pretend messiah Mosby Sep 2024 #49

Yes, it would. Pinback Sep 2024 #52

Ridiculous. This is the most targeted operation in history afaict. The pagers were specifically for terrorist operatives Hekate Sep 2024 #7

Hezbollah buys a bunch of encrypted pagers and issues them to their soldiers and that's indiscriminate? EX500rider Sep 2024 #9

Most were Hezbollah-linked civilians. Not even directly Hezbollah ColinC Sep 2024 #11

What is a "Hezbollah-linked" civilian? And link for the claim that "most" weren't Hezbollah? onenote Sep 2024 #14

12 civilians killed in first attack, 20 were killed in the latest attack and only 10 were Hezbollah ColinC Sep 2024 #17

BS!!!! MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #16

Do you have a source to refute? ColinC Sep 2024 #19

Sources have already been provided in other threads, but you knew that, MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #22

Interesting ColinC Sep 2024 #24

Ya know what you call a terrorist linked "civilian?" Happy Hoosier Sep 2024 #18

So kill all teachers EMS workers, children, parents ColinC Sep 2024 #21

Were they carrying pagers? Happy Hoosier Sep 2024 #23

Yes. See post 24 ColinC Sep 2024 #26

I reject that. Happy Hoosier Sep 2024 #31

What about children? ColinC Sep 2024 #33

I acknowledge there were likely children injured.... Happy Hoosier Sep 2024 #34

That article cites two children were killed by the pagers ColinC Sep 2024 #36

Okay. Happy Hoosier Sep 2024 #38

In the first attack all of the 12 killed were civilians ColinC Sep 2024 #39

Do you blame the parents when children accidentally shoot themselves with a gun? AZSkiffyGeek Sep 2024 #51

I used to play with my moms pager when I was a kid ColinC Sep 2024 #37

Sure. It could happen. Happy Hoosier Sep 2024 #40

Agreed. nt MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #44

You sure are going out of your way to condemn Israel for targeting Hizbollah MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #25

Not out of my way. I just give human emotions and rational criticism to things that bother me ColinC Sep 2024 #27

I would call it a brilliant attack as long as there were minimal civilian casualties MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #28

I appreciate your consistency ColinC Sep 2024 #29

What happened in Lebanon was a targeted attack against Hizbollah's Command and Control apparatus, MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #32

I don't know if I shared this one with you but just in case ColinC Sep 2024 #35

Yes you did share that, MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #41

We do! Did I ever tell you I was an Army Engineer? ColinC Sep 2024 #42

Oorah Army. MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2024 #43

Do you have a link for that? EX500rider Sep 2024 #46

So far all of the 12 people killed in the first attack were civilians ColinC Sep 2024 #47

You are the one trying to spin Hezbollah members as "civilians" but that is some bull. TheKentuckian Sep 2024 #48

"according to Hezbollah" you mean? EX500rider Sep 2024 #55

Directly targeted military equipment. Not booby traps. Not civilians. mathematic Sep 2024 #50

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah disagrees sarisataka Sep 2024 #53

Their opinion and $5 might buy a cup of coffee BannonsLiver Sep 2024 #54