you have no idea how fucked up middle eastern politics can get. first split by sunni/shia/other religions, then allegiance to syria/iran/israel/iraq/egypt/selection of gulf states, and sometimes by tribe/clan allegiance too just to keep things from getting too easy. then try to make a government out of like 15 parties all with divergent goals funding and incentives

i’ll make it shorter for you if you don’t have attention span for a paragraph of text:

pagers are probably a war crime, but it’s relatively minor compared to airstrikes that happened since (and before)

pagers thing is probably illegal pending extra details but it’s not the worst thing that happenes there. not like this case will see hague ever so it’s probably a bit moot on that ground

it’s middle east, there are no innocent orgs, except civilians, and no one has actual incentive to limit civilian casualties. i’d just wish that both likud and hamas lose because neither is compatible with remotely sane stable politics in region

well it’s gotta be more about how every lebanese govt since 2006 refused to implement UNSC resolution 1701 (that one about disarming hezbollah) and how it turned out for them

you’re mixing up hamas and hezbollah, and if you want to go into rabbit hole shitshow that is lebanese politics start with Taif agreement

both in absolute terms and especially compared to continuing airstrikes, some with ai-cooked target list and including actual warcrime tactics, pagers were basically spotless in terms of targeting. the more likely illegal part was in booby-trapping pagers in the first place. westpoint lawyer take on the situation https://lieber.westpoint.edu/exploding-pagers-law/

fyi even the cortisol addicted core of conservative electorate got significantly saner ~2wk after takeover of public tv by current boring moderate government. that happened a while ago

he’s in hoodie because he visited the flooded region today. as of surname, it might be related to germanic root tysk- like how you have “tyskland” in danish meaning “germany” (he’s kashubian, and that region had strong german and scandi influences). donald tusk is the face of boring moderates™ that were main opponents of previous batshit insane conservative government, and that particular rumor mill has a significant conservative slant

depending on particular noises made by their favourite rumor mill, they might have heard that pagers contained 0, 1, 3, less than 20, or 30 to 60g of explosives. these might have been in battery or in extra (fake) element. nobody knows shit as of now

taiwanese manufacturer denies involvement and directs to a hungarian subsidiary, but that hungarian subsidiary is only nameplate on a residential address. their pagers contain different chips and are overall different model compared to what taiwanese make and sell. it might be very well that israelis didn’t have to intercept shipping of pagers, because they made them and routed through a few cutouts, one in hungary, another in bulgaria. israelis have a policy of not telling anything and i haven’t seen anywhere internals of the alleged pagers. it will take some time until anything will be known with any certainty

some reports say explosions also happened in syria but that’s just rumors for now

would RDX increase or decrease baofeng interference? only one way to find out

that israel has nukes

It’s not. Taiwanese say that pagers weren’t made by them but instead these were made by their Hungarian subsidiary, but that company only has nameplate at residential address. It seems that shipment was for 5000 pagers and extra faje component was added

this is like second or third worst kept secret in the middle east

ncd gains another prophet (this was posted to r/ncd yesterday)

for now it’s handheld radios, more pagers, solar energy systems and laptops

i’ve seen other source stating that it was something between 30 and 60g

give it a few days, nobody knows what is going on and only thing you can get are rumors. some people still think it was lithium battery

apparently retrorockets were used (sometimes)

that’s rather credible as far as it goes. this thing is probably used for nuisance raids

yeah, but for that you have to find them. good luck if you’re not the 60 year old dude who laid them, then over years “maintained” them into plastic spaghetti incomprehensible to anyone else