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Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say (www.nytimes.com)

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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 month ago

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

what?

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

Link or source, please. This sounds intriguing.

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

Whoops, got which world war wrong. It was world war one

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-forgotten-ferocity-of-canadas-soldiers-in-the-great-war (I know, ew, National Post)

https://www.cbc.ca/history/SECTIONSE1EP12CH1LE.html (holy shit CBC update this part of your site. This one is more to back it up in that even with pride behind it, it kind of has an underlying tone of... Holding back)

It's hard to find direct proper sources since it seems we've buried that part of our history some and Google sucks ass these days, but I'll edit in more as I find them

EDIT: https://web.viu.ca/davies/H355H.Cda.WWI/Cook.PoliticsOfSurrender.pdf (university site)

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

First link is behind a paywall, second link doesn't have anything about war crimes, third link is an academic paper talking about surrendering germans and how they were often killed by Canadian forces. It notes that killing of surrendering forces was an all participants type thing not entirely specific to Canada though. Even notes that Britain was particularly bad about surrendering enemies due to fake surrenders in the South African War just a decade or so before.

[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

I've just read a book about Somme, and it's absolutely true for that battle that surrendered enemies were killed for mere convenience - so they wouldn't have to take them back and feed them. I read this of the British in particular, but that's who the book was about, so.

[-] shaserlark@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

The first link wasn’t behind a paywall and talks exactly about what OP mentioned, actually it’s a horrible read and while apparently everyone (Germans, French, British, …) was just busy fighting a war they didn’t really care about, Canadians were on a mission to slaughter Germans for whatever reason.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago

What is a "canada"?

[-] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I believe it's a goose.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Aahh, that makes sense.

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

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

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