Indiscriminate is the correct word. They were detonated all at the same time regardless of where their targets location at the time. Civilians were killed, including children.
I’ve seen surveillance camera footage of the explosions. They were so small and targeted that tomatoes on fruit stands mere centimeters next to the targets remained unspoiled. The shaped charges produced highly directed blasts designed to only injure a single person - and in the vast majority of cases, that’s exactly what happened. Hezbollah could only claim that two children were killed, both children of Hezbollah members. That’s tragic, since they are not responsible for the sins of their parents, but out of over 3500 explosions, that is an unbelievably small number of innocents. Footage of hospitals and the carnage in the streets meanwhile only - and I mean only - showed men of fighting age and slightly older men (like the Iranian ambassador) among those wounded by the explosions. Seriously, I was extremely curious of who was affected by the blasts and I could not find any photos or videos that showed victims of other demographics. It was rooms and corridors filled with fit young men.
The one thing that affected innocents the most was that these wounded terrorists overwhelmed the Lebanese healthcare system for a short while and that thus civilians were often denied care in the aftermath of the attack. Another minor thing was panic about civilians about electronic devices in general, with people fearing that any device could be remotely detonated, but this was of course unfounded, since only pagers (and, a day later, walkie-talkies) prepared with explosives exploded.
This attack crippled Hezbollah, vastly reducing the threat they are posing to the entire region, not just Israel. Without the pager attack, Syria would not have been liberated from the butcher Assad, since the terror group was vital in keeping armed opposition down and preserving Iran’s foothold in the country. That’s a good thing.
Indiscriminate is the correct word. They were detonated all at the same time regardless of where their targets location at the time. Civilians were killed, including children.
I’ve seen surveillance camera footage of the explosions. They were so small and targeted that tomatoes on fruit stands mere centimeters next to the targets remained unspoiled. The shaped charges produced highly directed blasts designed to only injure a single person - and in the vast majority of cases, that’s exactly what happened. Hezbollah could only claim that two children were killed, both children of Hezbollah members. That’s tragic, since they are not responsible for the sins of their parents, but out of over 3500 explosions, that is an unbelievably small number of innocents. Footage of hospitals and the carnage in the streets meanwhile only - and I mean only - showed men of fighting age and slightly older men (like the Iranian ambassador) among those wounded by the explosions. Seriously, I was extremely curious of who was affected by the blasts and I could not find any photos or videos that showed victims of other demographics. It was rooms and corridors filled with fit young men.
The one thing that affected innocents the most was that these wounded terrorists overwhelmed the Lebanese healthcare system for a short while and that thus civilians were often denied care in the aftermath of the attack. Another minor thing was panic about civilians about electronic devices in general, with people fearing that any device could be remotely detonated, but this was of course unfounded, since only pagers (and, a day later, walkie-talkies) prepared with explosives exploded.
This attack crippled Hezbollah, vastly reducing the threat they are posing to the entire region, not just Israel. Without the pager attack, Syria would not have been liberated from the butcher Assad, since the terror group was vital in keeping armed opposition down and preserving Iran’s foothold in the country. That’s a good thing.
So 2 dead kids is acceptable and makes it a discriminate attack. How many dead children before it is indiscriminate?