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Israel's Precision Attack Against Hizbullah Was Humane
(Newsweek) Arsen Ostrovsky, John Spencer, and Mark Goldfeder - Hizbullah is a jihadist terrorist organization and a standing army that is funded, supplied by, and serves the Islamic Republic of Iran. Like Hamas, Hizbullah also has genocidal intentions to annihilate Israel and kill all the Jews. Since Oct. 8, 2023, Hizbullah has fired more than 8,500 rockets at Israel, each an unquestionable war crime, murdering 47 people, including 12 children who were struck while playing soccer. By any stretch of the imagination, Israel is fully entitled under international law to exercise its right to self-defense. Article 52 of the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Convention I, says that acts such as the use of booby traps in communication devices are permissible in circumstances where the objects in question are no longer used for civilian purposes. The pagers and hand-held devices which were distributed specifically to Hizbullah operatives were being used for the purposes of communicating, planning and conducting military operations. As such, they became legitimate military targets. Moreover, only Hizbullah operatives were known to be in possession of these devices, which were not widely or generally available.