Hostage users vs. Hostage killers, what a wonderful scenario the Middle East has gotten itself into this time.

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Hostage users vs. Hostage killers, what a wonderful scenario the Middle East has gotten itself into this time. - Lemmy.World

What are you talking about? The beepers and radios were bought by Hezbollah, and went to Hezbollah members. They were surgical strikes.

Meanwhile, Lebanon is still firing rockets at Israel. The only reason that not more Israeli civilians are dead is because of the Iron Dome

Surgical my ass. Blowing explosives you planted on people way out of sight ANF without any situational awareness is anything but precise

I mean it was certainly precise as in each device was carried by their respective owner and therefore intended target.

Blowing it up while the guy was standing in line in a grocery store shows how much civilian casualties have been considered though.

I mean it was certainly precise as in each device was carried by their respective owner and therefore intended target.

There was no way to know that for Israel though, they just assumed

Certainly, but I assume they only did care so much.
Yeah, we can agree on that
More surgical than some unguided rocket over a civilian area
I’d say its about the same. Both have no idea where it will explode. The only thing Israels solution has going for it is the significantly less powerful explosive