There are now over two thousand injuries and at least one nine year old girl dead. This was a reckless attack, a war crime, and a blatant disregard of international law.
You’re not targeting pacemakers embedded only in the chest cavities of known Hezbollah militants but devices often left around family and children. Hezbollah is a massive political entity with probably more non-combatants than combatants. The pagers are used by accountants, doctors, civil salarymen, it workers, and others that are not legal targets under IHL.
If the pagers all belong to military targets is this a war crime?
It means basically that all war is a crime. Which from an idealistic point of view I agree, but that's not how the world works.
Rockets are fired to the Israeli north for a year now, about a 200k civilians are evacuated for a year now because the rockets are mostly randomly targeted.
a 3 yo Israeli baby is still held hostage by hamas, never meeting the red cross.
You’re not targeting pacemakers embedded only in the chest cavities of known Hezbollah militants but devices often left around family and children. Hezbollah is a massive political entity with probably more non-combatants than combatants. The pagers are used by accountants, doctors, civil salarymen, it workers, and others that are not legal targets under IHL.
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/17/middle-ea...
> Among those killed is an eight-year-old girl from Bekka Valley, Abiad said, according to Al Jazeera.
> At least 2,800 people have been wounded, he added, and more than 200 are in critical condition.