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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] 11 points 17 hours ago

Truly the depravity of Israel knows no limits.

It seems they did learn some stuff from WW2.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder about the technical part of this.

Was it timer based?

Was it based upon which number sent a message?

A lot of the ideas I have would require a huge technical operation, instead of the "just added explosives" angle.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

It is a huge technical operation to intercept an order and replace it with modified devices without the target knowing. Particularly when the target has to be extra careful in ordering things in the first place to avoid sanctions.

In contrast sending out an "execute order 66" message is pretty trivial to trigger them

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

There are videos capturing lots of explosions going off simulataneously. Since pagers already can recieve messages and these devices were deeply infiltrated, they likely added a special trigger message to set them off. THis could also allow other scenarios, like only setting off one (for whatever reason).

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago (39 children)

If iPhones had explosives planted in them straight out of the factory and would've went off in New York all at the same time, injuring thousands and endangering people around them, the 24/7 news cycle would've already called for total annihilation and what not.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Israel continues doing bad things. Not much of a shock.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Still needs to be called out each time it happens.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

Frustrating to do another long-form argument of "actually, when you distribute a bunch of explosives and set them off in crowded areas, you're not fighting terrorism but doing terrorism"

For some reason people struggle to believe flinging hand grenades into a crowd is bad public policy when a US ally does it.

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