IDF: Whoops, tee hee.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    to be clear, you can’t directly target an individual, you can maybe potentially target a single individual.

    This is also not to mention the cost and accessibility of doing something like this at scale. It’s theorized they either got into the factories, or somehow got through the shipment and intercepted it to do this operation.

    It’s possible they acted as a middleman but that would be really really hard to do at scale like this.

    And even if they did this in palestine, it would only work once.

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      8 days ago

      You don’t need to speculate or theorize; they say exactly how they did it. I cut to the exact part of the video where it is succinctly explained.

      You’ll also notice that, according to Ben/according to Israel/according to Hezbollah… they advertised that they were going to stop using phones & switch to pagers. In July. So people going on about “they could have done this all along” are wrong. It’s been since sometime in July. This July. Which makes this a very fast & even more effective military operation.

      Yes, the shell company was set up 1.5 years ago. Date of sale, idk. But common sense: you need to sell your enemy the goods…and you need to know with relative certainty that the hardware is actively in use. So: since July.

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      8 days ago

      The cost? You mean these bombs are more expensive that the weapons used to level Gaza? The ones they only get because other countries sell them?

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        7 days ago

        i would assume on a unit level cost, these pagers are probably cheaper, as evidenced by recent Ukrainian advances, however the cost of actually getting these units in the hands of the people that need them is going to slowly approach infinity depending on how aggressively you wish to do it.

        Also, other countries are allowed to sell military equipment, there’s nothing innately illegal with that. Although the people of those countries may not like it, they do generally have the rights to protest it however.