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Guess what? Military age male is anyone over 18, including civilians. This was used for years by the US administration to pump up numbers of terrorists killed by drone strikes in Pakistan, when in reality up to 80% were civilians with no links to those said terrorists.View attachment 65557
- Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Hezbollah pagers explode all over Lebanon; Hezbollah claims they were used by "civilians"
From the Wall Street Journal:
Some potential victims said they felt the pagers heat up beforehand and got rid of them before the explosion.
So far, according to Lebanese health authorities, is 8 killed, 200 critically injured and 2,750 injured to some degree. 7 more were said to be killed in Syria.
When I first saw the story, I assumed that "somebody" had found a vulnerability in the pager software and fond that a set of commands could cause them to heat up and explode. But the WSJ report makes it sound more like a supply chain attack -"somebody" knew about this shipment and sabotaged it, perhaps even installing small explosives inside the devices that could be triggered by commands or heat, or more likely replacing the batteries with versions that would explode when exposed to a certain stimulus like a series of signals.
Almost certainly, and ironically, Hezbollah demanded that its many members communicate only with pagers because they felt that they were more secure than cell phones that could be hacked or eavesdropped on. One can be certain that everyone who had one of these pagers in their pocket or their belt was a Hezbollah member, making this attack as perfectly aligned with international law as is possible.
Hezbollah predictably is pretending that they were killing civilians - as if normal people would walk around with pagers instead of phones.
Hezbollah is only claiming that civilians were killed - claiming the death of a girl. What they don't say is that her terrorist father with the pager was next to her at the time, or whether he is alive.
Other details are coming out - a Hezbollah MP who was killed, a son of a Hezbollah leader said to have been killed.
One can be certain that the only people using that brand of pager in Lebanon are Hezbollah members. While there are still some some pager manufacturers, they re only for niche markets.
Like terrorists.
Here are two videos apparently of explosions.
[videos in original]
And photos of victims:
To no one's surprise, every photo and video that have been published show the victims are military aged males. Not nurses.
This may be the first truly fatal cyberattack.
The fact that you're using a well known fascist source "Elder of Ziyon" who actively has called for the ethnic cleansing of non-Jews, is shameful and isn't the flex you think it is.
You have a history of posting fascist propaganda. Have some shame.
