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

Israel murders another kid again.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hezbollah fighter could choose to live normal life and not be a member of Hezbollah. Lay down with dogs, wake up with fleas...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't care about hizbollah. I care about the civilians who didn't choose to be with a hizbollah fighter in the same place. Israel did the plan knowing really well that civilians and members of the fighter families would die.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t care about hizbollah.

And Hezbollah doesn't care about any civilians that get killed near them. 'Involuntary Martyrs' is the term I believe they used. According to reports, only 14 people have died, which is an extraordinarily low number considering that Israel went after thousands of targets that don't wear uniforms and deliberately intermix freely amongst civilians.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes hizbollah doesn't care about civilians, the problem is that you are removing alll the blame from israel. You are forgetting the hundred of injured too. If you think it's ok for israel to sacrifice civilians to kill militants you are a terrible human being

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From the videos I have seen, very few truly innocent bystanders are being hurt. These are very small explosive charges. In one video, a Hiz dude looks at his pager while he is in the produce section of a market. There are about 4 - 5 people within 10 feet of him. The pager explodes, Hiz dude goes down, no one else is hurt. In a second video, Hezbollah member is paying for something. He is within arm's reach of the clerk he is giving the money to. The pager goes off, he goes down. The clerk runs away unscathed.

In the history of warfare, this operation may be the most surgical of strikes ever in regards to intended targets hit vs innocent civilians hit.

It's a sad fact of modern warfare that if a militant group doesn't wear uniforms and tries to hide amongst civilians, it opponents will eventually go after them and there will be civilian casualties.

Here are the videos I was talking about. Be warned, they are a little rough to watch. There isn't any blood, but the audio is quite disturbing. You may want to mute them.

Here is the market video I was talking about. https://funker530.com/video/hezbollah-operatives-getting-wrecked-by-exploding-pagers

Here is the payment video: https://funker530.com/video/another-hezbollah-pager-explodes-on-camera

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Sorry, you are just a scum