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Israel carried out its operation against Hezbollah on Tuesday by hiding explosive material within a new batch of Taiwanese-made pagers imported into Lebanon, according to American and other officials briefed on the operation.

The pagers, which Hezbollah had ordered from Gold Apollo in Taiwan, had been tampered with before they reached Lebanon, according to some of the officials. Most were the company’s AP924 model, though three other Gold Apollo models were also included in the shipment.

The explosive material, as little as one to two ounces, was implanted next to the battery in each pager, two of the officials said. A switch was also embedded that could be triggered remotely to detonate the explosives.

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[-] ShadowRam@fedia.io 15 points 1 day ago

Canada's record for war crimes added to the Geneva Convention?

what?

[-] Icalasari@fedia.io 22 points 1 day ago

Canada in WWII basically invented a bunch of entirely new warcrimes

There's a reason Nazi Germany was terrified of Canadians and convinced they were demons sent from hell itself

EDIT: Got which world war wrong. Nazi Germany feared Canada because of what Canada did in WWI

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Link or source, please. This sounds intriguing.

[-] huginn@feddit.it 14 points 1 day ago

Not op - as far as I can tell they weren't particularly warcrimey for WW2.

They killed a bunch of German POWs during the invasion of Sicily and killed 20 civilians while burning down a town for a supposed civilian killing a commander (turned out it was an enemy combatant).

Both deeply abhorrent but not "inventing new crimes"

[-] Icalasari@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I got which world war mixed up. Been a while since I looked into it

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