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The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah devices that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse.

    • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Depends on your defined of terrorism, and what these actions are.

      The usual one i see is to the effect of “non state actor using violence against a civilization population to further political objectives”. By that one:

      • no, Israel is a state

      • violence, yes.

      • civilian population is a maybe, depending on your definition of Hezbollah actions and position. Are they civilians, combatants, terrorists themselves?

      • further political objectives is likely, however I don’t see what the objective is. Kill people we don’t like is murder, not terrorism.

      Of note, if its not a terrorist act it could very well be an act of war, invoking the right of self defense (Art 30???). If so, and civilian casualties weren’t minimized its leading towards war crime territory. I wouldn’t say it was - small explosive, on an object usually carried by the target, which was unlikely to be used by civilians.

      Israel could use the same article to call this attack self defense against actions already taken. You can look at gulf War for the whole discussion around preemptive strikes for self defense.

      Personally, I say no. Same way Chinese vessels “only” ramming and using waterguns on Philippine vessels isn’t terrorism.