News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sourc... by spondylosaurus on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:00PM (#41581549)
And very possibly in violation of the Geneva Convention's prohibition of "indiscriminate" attacks:

   Rule 12. Indiscriminate attacks are those:
   (a) which are not directed at a specific military objective;
   (b) which employ a method or means of combat which cannot be directed at a specific military objective; or
   (c) which employ a method or means of combat the effects of which cannot be limited as required by international humanitarian law; and consequently, in each such case, are of a nature to strike military objectives and civilians or civilian objects without distinction.
Re:Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sourc... by krick on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:15PM (#41581797)
Not like they ever really cared for Geneva Conventions and such.
Re:Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sourc... by exe34 on Saturday September 21, 2024 @10:59AM (#41610414)
would the Geneva convention prefer smart bombs? could the Geneva convention please tell the terrorists to stop hiding in their family and community?
Re:Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sourc... by borski on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:26PM (#41581958)
(a) Disrupt Hezbollah’s communications network and take out operatives.

(b) The pagers were specifically distributed to Hezbollah operatives, not civilians. It targeted, by definition, the owners of those pagers, supporting the military objective.

(c) It was limited, by definition. This contained tiny amount of explosives, focused very much on targeting the owner of the device, not “civilians or civilian objects without distinction” (from military objectives).

No violation here.

Re:Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sourc... by spondylosaurus on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:34PM (#41582083)
An explosive going off in a grocery store while people shop is "limited, by definition"?
Re:Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sourc... by borski on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:39PM (#41582149)
A 30g explosive going off in a device that is owned by a militant? Yes, that is limited, by definition.

Once again, people in that grocery store who were standing near the militant mostly walked away - you can see that on nearly every video that has been released.

A non-targeted attack would have been a rocket hitting the grocery store. This was, by definition, a targeted attack. Even if a person had stood there and shot the militant directly, and there had been a civilian that caught a stray bullet, this would still have been a targeted attack.

As it is, eight Hezbollah militants have died, and the one civilian injury was a Hezbollah militant’s daughter; killing a child was clearly not the intent.

That’s a successful military operation.

Re:Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sourc... by HDThoreaun on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @03:46PM (#41584585)
Yes? Watch the videos, people 3 feet away were completely unharmed.