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10-year-old Fatima Jaafar Abdullah was killed in pager explosions in Lebanon.

Israel murders another kid again.

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[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In this analogy it's just a city bus. They killed civilians with this attack, I'm not sure if you realize. Unless you think the 10 year old girl was a hardened Hezbollah soldier.

And yes, it's better, but not good. Especially since they're not even at war with Lebanon right now. They're just trying to expand the conflict to keep the US in a forever war to justify their genocide and so Netanyahu never has to account for his crimes.

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee -2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

In this case it's Hezbollah that chose to 'expand the conflict' back in October

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That was Israel when they decided to initiate a genocide.

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 1 points 22 hours ago

I understand you want to derail the discussion, but Hezbollah decided to attack Israel right after Hamas had their little excursion, before Israel launched their offensive in response

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A City bus doesn't actually fit the analogy. Israel didn't randomly distribute explosive pagers to anyone. They went to a terrorist organization.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

They blew up the pagers without knowing where they would be, who they would be next to, or who would be holding them. That's how the children died. It was really cool how cyberpunk it was, but it wasn't precisely targeted at all. It's like blowing up a city bus because you're pretty sure a Hezbollah member is in it but don't care about collateral damage at all.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

These weren't bus size explosions, you could be in an elevator with someone wearing the pager and survive.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Just a little light crippling, don't worry about the other 2700 other people that suddenly need the hospital, oh wait, some bombs went off there as well!