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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by sudosysgen on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @09:45PM (#41574890)
Mobile phone service is horrible in Lebanon and cannot be relied on in any type of emergency.

Also, the whole point of this is that active duty members of Hezbollah includes hospital staff and teachers. Hezbollah's civilian division is about as large as the paramilitary one, if not larger. So it's not possible to confidently state that anyone affected was part of a milita with the information we have right now.

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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by tptacek on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @10:47PM (#41575251)
Why are teachers carrying Hezbollah military pagers?
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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by sudosysgen on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @11:29PM (#41575482)
Why would employees of Hezbollah carry Hezbollah communication devices? That doesn't seem like the question you're trying to ask, in which case, what is a 'military' pager and how is it different from a 'civilian' pager? How are you able to tell apart a 'military' pager from a 'civilian' pager with such confidence as to present it as an unquestioned assumption?

I've spent quite some time looking, and I cannot find such a thing as a military pager. The only pagers I can find mentioned in a military setting are no different from the pagers that civilians would use, for example, the use of commercial pagers in US military hospitals.

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