Most of my timeline is arguing about supply chain attacks vs. cyber-induced explosions, but I think the most important thing to note here is that this attack is incredibly reckless. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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You gotta be seriously deranged to come up with this scheme. Somebody had to approve this! Big time POS!
I'm curious as to how, if at all, they targeted hezbollah only. Not to say that setting off thousands of explosions is ever OK, but if this was just carpet beepering an area and then blowing them... Just evil, pure evil
I fear the implications of this attack. What will happen to global economy if people gets tinfoil paranoia regarding common electronics ranging from cell phones to refrigerators?
Sounds like they properly exploded, so presumably they actually snuck a charge into them somehow before they were imported. With lithium-ion batteries you get smoke and fire, but not usually explosions—not across a whole lot of them like that.
Correct - we have dead children again and hundreds of non-combatants injured. Even if carefully targeted, the domestic situation of most combatants is that they dwell with non-combatants. Netanyahu is an evil madman who is prepared to burn the whole world rather than face justice for his crimes.
I also wonder what political or military objective it might have been expected to achieve. It seems unlikely to remove or reduce the threat posed by Hezbollah, and more likely to do the opposite. But it is what someone like Bibi might do to provoke or prolong a war that keeps him in power.