Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law, United Nations rights chief says

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law, United Nations rights chief says

By EDITH M. LEDERER
Updated 10:57 PM EDT, September 20, 2024

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Weaponizing ordinary communication devices represents a new development in warfare, and targeting thousands of Lebanese people using pagers, two-way radios and electronic equipment without their knowledge is a violation of international human rights law, the United Nations human rights chief said Friday.

Volker Türk told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council there must be an independent and transparent investigation of the two attacks in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday where these devices exploded, reportedly killing 37 people and injuring more than 3,400 others.

“Those who ordered and carried out these attacks must be held to account,” he said.

Lebanon has blamed Israel for the attacks, which appeared to target Hezbollah militants but also saw many civilian casualties, including children. Hezbollah has fought many conflicts with Israel, including a war in 2006, and it has conducted near-daily strikes against Israel to support Hamas militants who attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/un-lebanon-explosions-pagers-international-law-rights-9059b1c1af5da062fa214a1d5a3d7454

[Tetrachloride]

1. "let's see how many people we can get away with killing"

that's my opinion of many actions of the past few years or 100 years or 1000 or 5000 years. Take your pick. The dead are better at counting the dead than the living are.

[stopdiggin]

2. more of the usual ...

anything done by Israel ...
Meanwhile - people that have been laboring in the trenches against terrorism, "brilliant, strategic, and precisely targeted .. " Micro charges delivered directly into the hands of the target, Hezbollah. Grade on a scale of 100 - about 97-98.

[nycbos]

3. What a joke.

Hezbollah can 10 of thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians, requiring the entire north of the country to be evacuated, and human rights people either don't care or actively cheer it on.

However, targeting the devices used by a terrorist organization to plan for their terrorist attacks is somehow a violation of the human rights of terrorists.

Sounds like the UN. It took them four months for them to condemn hummus, for raping is Israeli hostages.

[Beastly Boy]

4. These were not ordinary devices.

These devices were intended for the exclusive use by members of a terrorist enterprise.

And apparently, what Mr Turk said was not meant to be a factual statement.

[JoseBalow]

5. Boo-hoo