Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 65

In what world does indiscriminately detonating 3000 devices scattered across a civilian population not constitute plain. simple. state-sponsored terrorism?!

At what point do milquetoast hardcore-centrist western media outlets drop the "explosions were had, children were unalived" phrasing and call it for what it is??

#israel

The huge wave of pagers/beepers exploding in Lebanon and Syria yesterday, very probably by Israel, can be called a major war crime or an act of mass-terrorism, but it certainly seems to me that it can not be considered as compliant with the laws of war.

Rule 15. In the conduct of military operations, constant care must be taken to spare the civilian population, civilians and civilian objects. All feasible precautions must be taken to avoid, and in any event to minimize, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects.
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule15

Rule 71. The use of weapons which are by nature indiscriminate is prohibited
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule71

Rule 19. Each party to the conflict must do everything feasible to cancel or suspend an attack if it becomes apparent that [...] the attack may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians [...] which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule19

Note that those "rules" are summaries of all customary international humanitarian law (non-voluntary global laws of war) by ICRC, responsible for maintenance of e.g. Geneva Conventions, while the underlying conventions and practices are cited on each page for further reference.

Reports so far put the injured at over 2,750

200 in critical conditions

8 dead so far

#Lebanon #pagers #Hezbollah

@alien @pvonhellermannn I believe it’s called Western hypocrisy.

Well, I guess Western democracies have just ruled that carrying out a supply-chain attack on personal technology to indiscriminately mass murder people is perfectly fine.

Thankfully, only Israel can use such a tactic to murder the Browns.

Oh, wait…

#IsraeliTerrorism #Israel #terrorism #oagerAttack

@grb090423 @pvonhellermannn The quotes are there for a reason.

@pvonhellermannn Alt text: Bowen: Tactical triumph for Israel, but Hezbollah won't be deterred
Middle East
18 Sep 2024, 11:33
00
EPA
Jeremy Bowen
International Editor, BBC News
Israel has scored a significant tactical triumph in this operation - the sort of

'Lebanese Public Health Minister Firass Abiad said damage to the hands and face made up the majority of injuries.

'Speaking to the BBC's Newshour programme, he said: "Most of the injuries appear to be to the face and especially to the eyes ..." '

IDF has reportedly blinded hundreds, possibly more. By design. The pagers reportedly sent a message before exploding, enticing people to look at them #gaza

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz04m913m49o

Meanwhile, the British press writes fawning love letters to Israel after its terrorist attack yesterday that wounded almost 3,000 people, some 300 of them critically, and killed others (yes, Brown people are people…, there you go, some white folks just learned something new today).

“An unleashed Israel is humiliating its enemies” exudes The Telegraph.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/an-unleashed-israel-is-humiliating-its-enemies/ar-AA1qLo8h

You’d think these bastards would have similarly gushed over the Nazis. Oh, wait, they did…

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-britains-nazi-loving-press-baron-made-the-case-for-hitler/

@EUCommission “Reached by phone on Wednesday, BAC Consulting chief executive Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono confirmed that her company worked with Gold Apollo. But when asked about the pagers and the explosions, she said, “I don’t make the pagers. I am just the intermediate. I think you got it wrong.”
…
Hsu of Gold Apollo said he also felt he had been victimized and was considering filing a lawsuit.

“I am a businessman,” he said. “How did I get involved in this attack?”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taiwan-firm-denies-making-pagers-used-lebanon-explosions-rcna171594

This is the Hungarian company BAC that Taiwan’s Gold Apollo says manufactured the pagers¹ used in yesterday’s terrorist attack by Israel (the original page was taken down):

https://archive.is/dXtMx

According to their projects page, they were/are also an expert evaluator for @EUCommission where they “Drafted various Evaluation Reports” and “Participated in Expert Meetings.”

https://archive.is/0NWKJ

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¹ https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/taiwans-gold-apollo-detonated-hezbollah-pagers-were-manufactured-by-hungarian-partner/

#BAC #pagers #terroristAttack #Israel #Lebanon #EU #EUCommission

Remember kids, pagers don’t kill people. Israeli terrorists who put explosives in pagers kill people.

#Israel #zionism #terrorism #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #warCrimes #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Lebanon #indiscriminateMassMurder #pagers #terroristAttack

@remenca Yeah, my bad.

@davep If your state sponsors a terrorist state, it’s a state sponsor of terrorism, no?

@bigTanuki Open source would not have prevented this unless every pager was checked after receiving it (or entirely produced in-house). Do you want to be opening up a device that might possibly contain an explosive to see if it matches the open source schematics?

I guess yesterday’s terrorist attack by Israel makes the United States a state sponsor of terrorism.

#Israel #zionism #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UnitedStates #America #USA #stateSponsorOfTerrorism #pagers #pagerAttack #terroristAttack #terrorism #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #warCrimes #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Lebanon #indiscriminateMassMurder

Terrorism is terrorism even when your beloved genocidal settler colonial apartheid regime does it.

#Israel #zionism #terrorism #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #warCrimes #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Lebanon #indiscriminateMassMurder

@fmors Oh, damn, yeah, my bad…

@ploum How odd, every time I’ve criticised Mozilla in the past, I’ve had respected members of the web community tell me how wrong I was and what a terrible person I was being.

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https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110977588416575754

@fkamiah17 I already read an article quoting some asshat saying just that.