Comment by tyromaniac
4 days ago
You must not have looked very hard.
> Photographs and videos filmed by victims and witnesses to the incident and reviewed by Human Rights Watch showed pagers exploding in various locales, such as grocery stores. Other videos that appear to be linked to the incident show adults and children in emergency rooms with severe penetrating traumatic injuries to their heads, torsos. and limbs, and other injuries consistent with the detonation of high explosives.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/18/lebanon-exploding-pagers...
The videos show Hezbollah members explode in public, but nearby civilians were unharmed. The explosive material was only a few grams. It didn’t even kill most people that were holding on to it, just maimed them with groin, hand, and eye damages
What do you think that proves? Thousands of pagers exploded. 50 unlucky bystanders explains your article. I looked harder and found that Hezbollah has admitted that most of the victims were the intended targets, Hezbollah members.
>Hezbollah, also a major Shiite political party with a wide network of social institutions, has acknowledged that most of those wounded and killed were its fighters or personnel.
https://apnews.com/article/b63cb3639dd9da855ec6c704bc8424df
You're lumping in a lot of hospital workers and civilian government personnel in with that majority.