The explosions maimed many Hezbollah members, according to footage from hospitals reviewed by Reuters. Wounded men had injuries of varying degrees to the face, missing fingers and gaping wounds at the hip where the pagers were likely worn.
There’s also footage of some of them going off. Together with the reports of people with missing fingers (holding the pagers) and the relative low number of casualties vs the number of affected devices show that the explosive force was rather limited. It would be extremely unlikely that these devices, distributed to those that needed to be securely reachable by Hezbollah, caused many collateral damage.
But that is not what you claimed earlier. Reuters specifically doesn’t claim they are or are not Hezbollah members. Just that they saw videos of hurt people.
Just to make my stand point clear: I don’t mean that this attack mostly attacked civilians, I just don’t think we are at a level of information yet, where the full broadness of the attack is clear. If it really would be 2 innocent on 3000 hits, then yes, that would a “good” number.
If you expect journalists to verify who is and who’s not affiliated with Hezbollah at the hospital doors I hope you understand that that’s just an impossible bar to clear.
But if you Occam’s razor that removed, it’s just statistically impossible that so many men and not women and children would be injured or dead, with these kind of injuries, if it were any different. There’s plenty of footage where you can see the force of the blast.
Here’s one example:
There’s also footage of some of them going off. Together with the reports of people with missing fingers (holding the pagers) and the relative low number of casualties vs the number of affected devices show that the explosive force was rather limited. It would be extremely unlikely that these devices, distributed to those that needed to be securely reachable by Hezbollah, caused many collateral damage.
First: thank you for providing the article!
But that is not what you claimed earlier. Reuters specifically doesn’t claim they are or are not Hezbollah members. Just that they saw videos of hurt people.
Just to make my stand point clear: I don’t mean that this attack mostly attacked civilians, I just don’t think we are at a level of information yet, where the full broadness of the attack is clear. If it really would be 2 innocent on 3000 hits, then yes, that would a “good” number.
If you expect journalists to verify who is and who’s not affiliated with Hezbollah at the hospital doors I hope you understand that that’s just an impossible bar to clear.
But if you Occam’s razor that removed, it’s just statistically impossible that so many men and not women and children would be injured or dead, with these kind of injuries, if it were any different. There’s plenty of footage where you can see the force of the blast.