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| crissindahouse said: Flame throwers aren't allowed in war but hey how about using small explosives to bomb people's hands/arms away? And that without knowing where this will happen because those people using them could be anywhere when it happens. They could drive their kid to school, sit in a bus or stay on a supermarket cashier so that there is absolutely no way you even try to prevent that many good people will also lose their eyes or something else... And this will change absolutely nothing to the positive. If at least this would be the goal but it obviously isn't. |
The goal, Netanyahu's goal, is to drag the USA into a regional war in the ME. He keeps provoking Iran and Hezbollah trying to escalate the tit for tat war on the Lebanon border. Hezbollah has been targeting military objectives in Northern Israel since Israel invaded Gaza. They vow not to stop until there is a ceasefire in Gaza.
Israel has been hitting back (times 4) and carried out many assassinations, usually targeting cars or motorbikes with missiles or drones.
Lebanon is home to some 270,000 Palestinian refugees, while Israel still occupies the Golan Heights and Shebaa farms. Hence all the support for Hezbollah in Lebanon. It's seen there as a resistance group.
This mass attack is another act of desperation from Netanyahu to stay in power. He has corruption charges hanging over his head and as soon as the war is over he will also be investigated for letting Oct 7 happen and all the screw-ups during the response. Plus he has an arrest warrant from the ICC hanging over his head.
So he goes on trying to escalate the war with Lebanon, accusing Iran of smuggling terrorists and weapons into the West Bank, targeting Syria, while raiding / destroying the West Bank and continuing to bomb Gaza.
And yes innocent bystanders got hurt as well with 2 children killed by the pagers.
Medical staff, children among those killed in pager blasts: Health Ministry
Lebanon’s Minister of Health Firass Abiad has held a media conference in Beirut on the situation in the aftermath of the pager blasts.
Abiad said many of those carrying the pagers were civilians. At least 12 people have been killed, including four medical staff, an eight-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy.
The attack showed that Israel was “steering away from a diplomatic solution,” Abiad said. “We have to be ready and alert.” The minister said the biggest challenge was to bring medical sector to a “situation of preparedness”, which includes increasing stockpiles of medicines and fuel.
Hospitals also needed to recover from the massive influx of patients overnight. Abiad said each hospital received 70 to 100 patients in the aftermath of the attack, which was “massive for any country”.
