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At least nine people have been killed and 2, 750 wounded in Lebanon on Tuesday after pagers used by Hezbollah - and medics- exploded in unison, in an attack that the movement and Lebanese government blamed on Israel.

Among the dead was a 10-year-old girl, who was killed in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley when the pager of her father, who is allegedly a Hezbollah member, exploded. Many have posted a photo of the girl on their X accounts and Instagram stories to pay their condolences.

Several social media users drew attention to the reckless and casual nature of the attack which targeted many people including civilians. A human rights lawyer on X cited the International Humanitarian Law Databases of the ICRC, saying that “there was no way to know if they would be in shopping markets, homes, or streets with busy traffic”, pointing to the indiscriminate nature of the attack.

Anthropologist and researcher Philip Proudfoot cited a section on indiscriminate attacks of the ICRC Geneva Conventions of 1949 and said that Israel is committing a war crime due to the indiscriminate nature of this attack with possible collateral damage. Many other users cited the same section of the convention, drawing attention to the fact that people had no means of knowing who was holding the explosive devices when they went off.

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[-] HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 days ago

Whats it called when an organization murders random people with the hope of scaring the public into not helping a different group?

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 0 points 2 days ago

Depends on the person you ask.

[-] HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 2 days ago
[-] ravhall@discuss.online 5 points 2 days ago

When any group kills the members of another group, an argument could be made to call it terrorism.

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

Are you making that argument?

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 5 points 1 day ago

Now that more information has come out since my original comment? Yes. Also war crime.

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