injured more than 2,931 people and killed at least 37, including at least four civilians
Also:
Amnesty International’s Evidence Lab analyzed 12 videos showing the pagers exploding in crowded civilian areas, such as residential streets and grocery stores, as well as in people’s homes. A verified video of the skyline of Beirut show large smoke plums over at least 10 locations in residential areas.
I appreciate you sharing this. It looks like it doesn’t really answer the question, unfortunately. As I’ve said, any civilian casualties are a tragedy. They’re also an inevitability of war. Amnesty has identified four deaths, and about a dozen out of several thousand detonations that endangered civilians. If that is the extent of civilian endangerment, it seems remarkably precise for this type of war. I’m pretty sure if they tried to do the same with ground troops or air strikes, the civilian casualties would have been much higher.
Amnesty says:
Also:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/09/lebanon-establish-international-investigation-into-deadly-attacks-using-exploding-portable-devices/
There is simply no excuse for executing this operation while those pagers are in places like grocery stores.
I appreciate you sharing this. It looks like it doesn’t really answer the question, unfortunately. As I’ve said, any civilian casualties are a tragedy. They’re also an inevitability of war. Amnesty has identified four deaths, and about a dozen out of several thousand detonations that endangered civilians. If that is the extent of civilian endangerment, it seems remarkably precise for this type of war. I’m pretty sure if they tried to do the same with ground troops or air strikes, the civilian casualties would have been much higher.