Israel's Terrorist Attack On Lebanon: Exploding Pagers Kill Child, 10 Others, Maim Thousands
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🗓️ 20 September 2024
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Imagine if such an attack had been launched on Israel. Imagine the response.
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| 0:00.0 | If say Hamas or Hezbollah managed to simultaneously detonate the pages or mobile phones of Israeli |
| 0:07.8 | reservists, whether or not they were on duty or not, wherever they happen to be, whoever |
| 0:12.0 | happened to be around them, that would be rightly classified |
| 0:15.5 | as an obscene act of mass terrorism. |
| 0:18.3 | It would also rightly be judged to be a grave war crime. |
| 0:21.6 | I'd also know that anyone who cheered on such an attack in the |
| 0:24.7 | West would be liable for arrest under their country's anti-terror legislation. Now, today |
| 0:30.8 | across Lebanon and reportedly in Syria pages suddenly exploded with |
| 0:35.3 | reports that more than 4,000 people so far have been injured with at least 11 |
| 0:40.2 | killed including one 8-year-old girl named Fatima Jafar Abdullah. |
| 0:47.0 | The reported targets was Hezbollah, which is two things, a Lebanese militia and a political party which is part of the |
| 0:55.2 | governing coalition in Lebanon. But it's not just Hezbollah fires who use these pages, |
| 0:59.7 | reportedly so do medics. I mean we need more information on that that's what the |
| 1:04.6 | questions will be asking who actually has these pages and does Israel know can |
| 1:09.4 | they be sure who these pages belong to we'll about that. But one widely circulating claim is that Israel |
| 1:15.1 | intercepted shipment of pages and then put explosives in them, remotely detonating them. |
| 1:20.0 | Hezbollah uses these pages or relies on them rather mobile phones to prevent Israel monitoring their activities. |
| 1:26.0 | The other possibility I've seen obviously being discussed is some sort of cyber attack |
| 1:30.8 | to remotely blow up these pages using their batteries. |
| 1:34.4 | I'm not a tech expert here, but it strikes me as extremely implausible, |
| 1:38.0 | especially given these pages appear to be primitive. |
| 1:40.0 | If that were true, well, the implications of that would be even more terrifying |
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