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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Israel says its strike on Beirut killed top Hezbollah military official as Lebanon reports 12 died
By BASSEM MROUE and JULIA FRANKEL BEIRUT©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Wick's pencil
Everybody knows that is obviously a shameless lie.
Japantime
Why don’t they just have a war to end all wars in the Middle East? These people must love living in this kind of situation for decades.
wallace
Arming of the pagers is a war crime not that Israel will care.
TaiwanIsNotChina
And I'm sure if you can track down who ordered it you can make a case. Of course it will be stuck behind the thousands of other cases from Oct. 7th and Hezbollah indiscriminate missiles.
Banthu
Imagine how different the reaction from officials in the West would be if Russia had assassinated a senior Ukrainian official by bombing a densely populated civilian area.
Utter, total, absolute, in your face, complete hypocrisy.
wallace
Pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah look like war crimes – international legal expert
https://theconversation.com/pager-and-walkie-talkie-attacks-on-hezbollah-look-like-war-crimes-international-legal-expert-239408
bass4funk
It is? Question: is parachuting into a sovereign country, killing and kidnapping people a crime or act of war?
JboneInTheZone
What war crime?
Fighto!
Israeli jets have been flying low over Beirut, knowing there is absolutely nothing Hezbollah can do about it.
Waving their fists at the sky "promising revenge" is clearly a waste of time. It's not going to happen.
I do feel for the children caught up in this - Hezbollah fighters should not be around them, putting them in harms way.
Aly Rustom
Exactly. Well said wick.
JboneInTheZone
No it’s not. The arming of pagers isn’t inherently a war crime
bass4funk
Proof?
Capuchin
Rare? Israel bombed Lebanon's capital in July and January of this year.
WoodyLee
Another Precision targeting by the Israeli air force just like last week in Gaza were 60 people were killed while targeting two Hamas fighters.
It is becoming the norm now and no one seems to care unless these bombs are dropped on western cities or targets.
Cephus
War is no sports and has no winner, however, terrorist attacks on Israel then hiding behind children and under women skirts comes with a higher cost, of collective punishment and a target.
stormcrow
Israel is certainly in hunting mode right now when it comes to terrorists.
Zaphod
stormcrow
It is, especially since the US has signalled it can not keep those aircraft carriers in the area forever.
However, killing the current flock of jihadist leaders can not fix the problem, as they will be replaced.
The only way to put a lid on the conflict is to turn off the money spigot to the jihadis and make a deal with the moderate Sunni regimes, which Trump had done. (Rember de-funding Hamas, freezing funds to Iran, and getting the Abraham accords ready to sign?) Sadly, the Biden govmt reversed all that on day 1, and predictably the region exploded.
The Ripper!
Outright brilliance on the part of Israel. Geniuses at eliminating terrorists and sparing civilians,
YeahRight
How much more has to happen before it's called a "full-out war"? Seems to me Israel is rightly defending itself in this war.
tokyo-star
perhaps its time for islam to grow up from the 1400s and get with the times