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submitted 2 months ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

A US-made munition was used in a strike on central Beirut that killed 22 people and wounded 117, according to an analysis of shrapnel found by the Guardian at the scene of the attack.

The strike on Thursday night hit an apartment complex in the densely populated neighbourhood of Basta, levelling the apartment building and destroying cars and the interiors of nearby residences.

It was the deadliest strike on Lebanon’s capital city since fighting between Hezbollah and Israel started a year ago.

A first responder on the scene said rescue crews had worked overnight to find survivors and recover the dead from under rubble. They said the building had more people living there than usual as residents had recently welcomed people displaced from Israeli bombing in south Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut. That elevated the number of people wounded and killed in the airstrike.

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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 months ago

Anyone remember the Ironman scene where the orphaned kids climbing through the rubble find shells with the Stark logo on it. This is how you create so called "terrorists".

[-] Player2@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Only difference is that Stark felt bad about it when he found out instead of just pocketing the money, most unrealistic part about Iron Man

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah in reality every bomb dropped creates an infinite feedback loop of creating more opportunities for companies to sell more bombs. What a foul world we live in.

[-] Lennny@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It also created Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver, gotta break a few eggs I guess

[-] Samvega 13 points 2 months ago

I wonder if some variant of "Israel is allowed to kill civilians because they're our friends," will be used to justify this.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Next time the folk in iran chant "death to America", I may just join in the refrain.

Geopolitics is complicated.

Not doing genocide is not.

Defending is one thing.

Indiscriminate slaughter of tens of thousands (and outright targeting children), and the support and supply of, is simply barbaric and evil.

[-] Michal@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago

Didn't take long, compared to how much Ukraine had to wait to get permission to use it on Russian territory while defending themselves.

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Isn't it a participation in war crimes?

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