Would they? Hezbollah has been firing missiles at Israeli civilians and trying to take out Iron Dome defenses for years. The Gazan military drew up a map to occupy Israel after their October 7th invasion. But here we are, commenting on an article about Hezbollah's communication network being attacked and people are still trying to make excuses for Hezbollah.
You're right of course, about Bibi and Biden. But there's a real dilemma for Israeli strategists. Hezbollah have effectively moved the Israeli border south at a relatively low cost.
And they also were not democratically elected either. They won a small portion of the seats of government, and then performed a violent coup to take over the rest of government.
Which hostages were raped? Some rape may have occurred on Oct 7, but nothing systematic, and almost nothing verified by non-IDF sources. Rape of Palestinian captives held without charge by Israeli soldiers is national policy, though, defended in Knesset committee meetings even by sitting Members of Knesset from the ruling party.
I wonder if it could have been both?
The terrorists killed 8 people. What do you think would have happened if one of them was a pilot?
Based on the information passing around, this is almost certainly explosive placed in the pagers and not the batteries being forced to overheat and pop. They are not remotely energetic enough to match the videos of the explosions captured or the damage that is being reported.
Why does the Iranian ambassador have a Hezbollah pager if Iran isn't actively using Hezbollah as a military proxy?
Israel is concentrating the entire population of Gaza into a beach next to the desert at the very south. aka a concentration camp. There are death camps and torture camps where captives are held without charge, raped to death, and tortured in the genitals and anus with hot irons. Top level ministers have called for shooting all prisoners to save costs, or starving 2 million people to death as the "moral thing to do, but the world won't let us".
Li-ion batteries that are "rigid", like 18650s and the prismatic I am familiar with (and probably most other) have pressure relief valves/features to vent the cell if pressure build up. That they "just" burn is a conscious choice. The flame you see is probably gas vented through this valve that ignites
Bull. Shit. This was as targeted an attack as it gets. The pagers were on a closed Hezbollah network - you couldn't have one of those if you weren't a member, and I'd wager that you'd need to be at least lower management-equivalent to rate one. The explosions were also tiny - in the videos, you can see a carrier collapsing, while a bystander literally a foot away is unscathed. Your pearl-clutching would be hilarious if it wasn't so ridiculous.
You say problem, they say solution. After 10/7 most settlement construction was accelerated. Israelis for the most part now accept they will never live in peace so are going to build the most sophisticated security state this side of China. The involves interleaving trusted and non trusted populations. Agree, disagree, they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Yes, I know, I responded to your specific wording about rape on purpose. From your link:
I'm hoping there were at least one or two duds and someone examines one. That would answer most of these questions.
Yes. Or a small layer of plastic explosive inside the sealed battery perhaps?
Blowing up a little girl is not justified, it's terrorism. No matter if the russians, the israelis, or the palestinean terrorists do it.
Yes, absolutely. Pagers used to be very popular in some countries, e.g. the USA, and not at all in some others, e.g. France. But anyhow, someone born on the late 90s or after would have no clue about what a pager is I think.
Now that’s an added incentive to turn off your electronics when on a plane…
I'm sure I've been ninjaed... but still need to say : NO. Counter-terrorism should not be accepted as "bomb them first". Doing that just justifies the terrorist's methods with the added propaganda benefit that they can claim to be picked on by the big bullies. At a minimum counter terrorism should be intelligence, reasonable hardening of targets. At best it would also include removing the systematic reasons that the disenfranchised would be willing to be recruited by the terrorists. You'll never get to 0 crime, but you certainly can make it hard for the recruitment.
Or Israel could have sent fighters in to clear it out, which may have resulted in a few civilian casualties, but the hospital would have remained intact and could pretty quickly be put back into service providing medical care after Hamas was cleared out of it.
Other sources state that the Gazan military was using that camp as a barracks. Why does their military keep using civilian infrastructure to house soldiers?
Then you don't mind sharing that source? All the mainstream media articles will at most state "IDF sources say...".
What's incorrect about it? Hanas and PiS ("Palestinian" Islamic Jihad) are the only only military forces in the Gaza Strip (tne local police is also part of Hamas), are supported by the majority of the population and are the de-facto government.
Ok, like I said, the only place this is coming from is the IDF. Do you have a real source? Because the IDF is not a real source. THey've claimed they killed a "terrorist" in an attack that they already claimed to kill in an earlier attack.
