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The pagers were used by Hezbollah as they were paranoid that Israel had infiltrated smartphones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_electronic_device...

12 civilians were killed. Not "hundreds"






It'd be ignorant to think that only Hezbollah uses pagers in that part of the world, and that Hezbollah would be completely isolated from civilians, including children.

The parent comment says that hundreds were maimed or killed. That is accurate, and clearly contradicts any claim to the strike's "surgical" nature.




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