A Lebanese boy relaxes on 15 July 2007 inside a shell dropped by Israeli warplanes during the previous year’s war with Hezbollah in the southern village of Aita al-Shaab
Alex MacDonald – Middle East Eye Sept 19, 2024
Lebanon is still reeling from two waves of Israeli-attributed pager and walkie-talkie explosions that have killed 32 people and wounded thousands more.
Although Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attacks, pro-Israel voices have been quick to praise the attack as a prime example of the country’s skill at conducting surgical strikes targeting its enemies without inflicting collateral damage.
This is despite the fact that two children were killed and numerous civilians wounded in the attacks, leading to condemnation from rights groups who say the indiscriminate nature of the weapons could violate the laws of war.
A source close to Hezbollah told Middle East Eye that the pagers were used by a “wide network of people, including administrators, medical workers, paramedics, media workers and other civilian members”.
“They are usually used for directives, summoning to meetings, for emergencies or state of alert,” the source explained.
But this is far from the first time Israel has used unorthodox booby-trap style methods to target Lebanon, nor is it the first example of civilians and children being maimed and killed using such weaponry.
MEE takes a look at this controversial history:
Cluster bomb and landmines
More than a million cluster bombs have been littered across southern Lebanon as a result of Israeli assaults on the territory over the years.
Since the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, which saw unprecedented use of the widely banned weaponry, scores have been killed in Lebanon after coming across them.
Many children playing in the region have found these unexploded munitions.
“They seem innocuous, especially to the curious mind of a child,” said Chris Clark of the UN Mine Action Coordination Centre (UNMACC) in Lebanon, speaking in 2006.
“They’re small, they easily conceal themselves amongst all the rubble or the debris of the bombing. We find that children unwittingly pick them up and then, sadly, suffer injuries from them.”
Both Lebanon and Israel are among the 33 countries that have not signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC).
Israel occupied southern Lebanon between 1982 and 2000 and during that period planted hundreds of thousands of landmines.
By the time they left, roughly 37,000 acres of Lebanon were thought to be contaminated with unexploded mines and improvised explosives planted by different parties to Lebanon’s civil war.
As of 2023, mine-clearing activities had cleared about 80 percent of this area of explosives.
The need to protect children in southern Lebanon from both mines and cluster bombs has led to some novel solutions – including the deployment of clown troupes to educate them about the dangers of unexploded ordinance.
However, according to Mine Action Review, work on clearing mines has been suspended as a result of the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Lebanon since October.
“As a result, Lebanon is not on track to meet its extended Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) Article 4 clearance deadline of 1 May 2026, and at current capacity predicts it will not meet its obligations until 2030,” said the site.
Bombs in toys
But a much more sinister accusation has also circulated since the 90s – that of bombs being dropped by Israeli aircraft in southern Lebanon intentionally concealed in children’s toys.
Lebanese newspaper L’Orient-Le Jour reported on the phenomenon in 1997, citing a number of examples including a nine-year-old girl who had her right hand shredded after finding a “big apple-green plastic jeep, with six big black wheels” that blew up in her hand after finding it near her village.
They also mentioned the example of a child who was left with severe burns after finding a booby-trapped flashlight and another girl who was killed after exclaiming “I found a doll!” before being blown up.
An officer of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) confirmed to AFP at the time that the objects were mainly dropped by helicopter.
“It can be a toy or have the shape of an ordinary stone,” he said on condition of anonymity.
In 1998 a letter from the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the secretary-general also repeated the claim that Israeli fighter planes had “attempted to kill children by dropping thousands of booby-trapped toys on Lebanese villages and towns”.
“The Israeli occupying forces have used this method through the years and continue to do so, the most recent example being when booby-trapped toys were dropped on the town of Nabatiyah, killing and injuring children and permanently disfiguring others,” he said.
For their part, Hezbollah at the time said among the items they found were a golden egg, fluorescent yellow cones, a Snoopy dog and a talking doll they said was set to explode when the cord was pulled.
Israel denied the accusations at the time, calling the allegations “despicable”.
Nevertheless, a report by the UK Foreign Affairs Committee in 2000 warned of the dangers of unexploded bombs in southern Lebanon, mentioning the use of “booby-trapped toys, allegedly dropped by the Israeli airforce near Lebanese villages adjacent to the so-called security zone”.
Speaking at the UN on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres re-emphasised that “civilian objects” should not be part of warfare.
“I think it’s very important that there is an effective control of civilian objects, not to weaponise civilian objects – that should be a rule that…governments should be able to implement,” he said.
“What has happened is particularly serious, not only because of the number of victims that it caused, but because of the indications that exist that this was triggered, I would say, in advance of a normal way to trigger these things, because there was a risk of this being discovered.”
According to those close to Princess Diana
she was warned several times if she took her anti landmine campaign to Palestine
there would be a ” fatal car crash”
Diana thought she was too high profile for them to take her
But the duke of edinburgh hated her popularity and discussed with Tony Blair about disposing of her
Toerag =Tony had to ask permission from rothschild who Okayed it
same as Robin Cook and Dr David Kelly
The jews killed her to stop her going to palestine
Kikes love to accuse everyone opposing them as a “terrorist” when in fact it’s the kikes themselves along with their zog golems who are the only real terrorists here. The world will be shocked when all horrific acts commited by the devil’s offspring will be revealed. Well, not the fat and retarded, estrogen and fluoride-riddled evangelicals, they will cheer and support them as usual. These evangelical filth, these fake Christians need to be punished in the same way as their idf mossad masters.
“…leading to condemnation from rights groups who say the indiscriminate nature of the weapons could violate the laws of war.”
Laws of War? I was taught from a young age that ALL is fair in Love and War.
When I was a kid in the 1960s rural Northeast US, we had rules for fighting: No hitting below the belt, and you had to release you opponent when they screamed “Uncle”.
This rural Rule (or Unwritten Law) worked fine until families from the inner cities of New York moved into our Country Community. These kids had no restrictions in any type of fighting on the Playground, as they would easily kick a local kid into submission and not stop until other kids restrained this Unlawful Urban aggressor.
Things haven’t changed much. We are still primarily a global playground of Love/Hate relationships, in a theatre of endless, Lawless Wars.
The Patients are running the Asylum.
Diane Abbott completely IGNORES the racism directed at UK white people in their own country
we see ” positive discrimination ” for migrants as our own folk get ignored
Story by Dan Falvey
Labour MP Diane Abbott completely ignored anti jewish feeling over the mas murder s in the occupied territories and genocide in palestine, this at an event aimed at ending all forms of racism.
The Hackney North MP failed to mention the discrimination faced by Jews during the present genocide in a message read out at a Stand up to Racism talk organised on the fringes of the Labour Party’s national conference in Liverpool.
While Abbott was unable to attend the “Why a Labour Government must challenge racism, Islamic and Hindu ” event in person, a statement was read out on her behalf.
The veteran MP criticised “increased racism” impact on “Black and Asian people in this country as well as Muslims” in Britain but did not mention the much deserved discrimination faced by Jews.
Her message read: “We are in a very difficult period. There is both a renewed war drive and a renewed austerity drive. Whenever either of these happen they are always accompanied by increased government racism against perceived enemies.
FOOTNOTE>We need to look after our own folk first
The photograph above is proof the jews are not dropping live, loaded ,shells on the pallies.they are just empty shells.how could this bomb not have exploded?if it misfired?who dismantled the thing neatly.who would dare?……….this shell is not deformed from any impact,let alone falling from the sky.or did they hammer out the dents in this projectile.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_weapon.
Satan reigns this world . he hides in everybodys
subconsciousness but openly in the consciousness
of politicians, Rothschilds bankers mafia, zionists,
communists, WEF/WMF/BIS/RIIA/CFR/CIA/FBI/
MI5+6/Mossad/IDF/Nato/B Gates/Soros + other
power jews + surely in Vatican + Buckingham palace.
Bombs in toys, Play Station murderers?
Many years ago, when the Nazis were using drones in Iraq, and other places, they weren’t your regular Nazi RAF pilots.
I used to post comments on here about 2-bit pilots dropping their lambs at school and the going to work in some wearhouse flying drones and literally murdering Muslims, and then going home to their lambs without one iota of concern for what they had done that day.
I bet some of these murderes have gone on to become commercial pilots aided by the key assists policy for those in or linked to the military.
The Nazis now want X-Box and PlayStation warriors to fly drones to murder Russians. Remember, bankrupt Britain doesn’t have the balls to openly declare war with Russia, despite the fact they’ve been fighting a near secret war against Russia for almost the length of Putin’s time in power.
They now want to recruit Call Of Duty types, who no doubt will remain anonymous, so no risk of prosecution, because the UK is a Nazi terrorist state, just as MI6 recruits mercenaries from all over the world, and just remember, YOU are paying for it!
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“They are usually used for directives, summoning to meetings, for emergencies or state of alert,” the source explained. Directives?on a pager?how much data can it receive?……………
Summoning to meetings??…??…………………for emergencies? News of emergencies travels at the speed of light,by word of mouth??????so many questions?……the accessibility for the secret services would be as easy for pagers as for cellphones as your computer and even your mind.they own the internet highways.they have all keys to decrypt all data mined..
The stupidity of these fellas is unfathomable??
Would it not have been smarter to just email ,in code?? with the key written on a falafel wrapping paper????……. 💭💭……….in case of espionage this paper could be chewed on, to safeguard the key.this key would be given only to the verified and trusted customers of the falafel stands operating under the khizballa umbrella organization.
I guarantee all these IDF assassinations/tactical strikes TOTALLY organised/planned & executed by yanks/brits…kikes cant do shit
MilitaryArms companies using the whole gaza/lebanon as weapons/tactical study..
ready for Russia/china wars…or whoever
It is only intelligent to acknowledge the demographic aspect of war and not see the enemy children as off-limits: Moslems in particular fight demographic war consciously, saying they will out-breed you and take your women
Not only the nukes are fake.looks like the conventional bombs are fake too.
ANOTHER STABBING DEATH
Police were called to reports of a disturbance on Eglinton Road, Woolwich, at about 6.30pm on Sunday. The boy was found at the scene with a stab injury and he died a short time later. His next of kin have been informed. It is believed to be connected to the Notting Hill carnival No arrests have been made and a crime scene is in place, the Metropolitan Police said.
BTW carl jones please seek treatment
“Many children playing in the region have found these unexploded munitions”…because there were no explosives in the munitions.
“They seem innocuous, (because its a dummy) especially to the curious mind of a child,” said Chris Clark of the UN Mine Action Coordination