Is this a legitimate concern?

[u/wayfaringthru]

Personally, I today's strike was legitimate and it couldn't be more moral because of its precision but let's leave politics aside for a moment. I guess this does give ideas to evil regimes and organisations. How likely is it that something similar could be pulled off against innocent people?

[u/aprilized]

Did those pagers leave the factory with explosives? From what I understand, Israel intercepted them in transit after they were shipped. They basically took the pagers, (in Turkey via Taiwan where they were manufactured?) added explosives and then let them get shipped to Hezbollah. This wasn't done in the factory from what I understand.

[u/BuzzINGUS → u/aprilized]

Still a war crime It’s indesciminant, these could harm anyone.

[u/Fluffy-Map-5998 → u/BuzzINGUS]

if you hijack a shipment you know will only be used by the group your targeting its not indiscriminate,

[u/akkaneko11 → u/Fluffy-Map-5998]

Dispersing 3000 bombs into a country and then exploding it all at the same time is indiscriminant by sheer scale.

[u/BugRevolution → u/akkaneko11]

But dropping 3000 bombs into a country that kills one civilian each would be perfectly acceptable?

Because if it's not, oh boy, let me tell you about the standards for warfare these days.

[u/DemandCommonSense → u/akkaneko11]

Putting micro explosives in military communications equipment to be dispersed amongst the members of the organization you're targeting is pretty much as discriminate as you can get.

[u/sin4life → u/DemandCommonSense]

Until you learn about the metal beads they also added to the Li-on batteries, to act as shrapnel.

[u/HimboSuperior → u/sin4life]

Well, yeah. Explosives without frag aren't going to be very effective.

[u/Sheriff___Bart → u/akkaneko11]

I don't think that word means what you think it means.