In the wake of Israel’s brutal mass terror attack on Lebanon, deploying internationally proscribed booby traps through pagers and other communication devices distributed in communities across Lebanon (and Syria), and predictably resulting in the death and maiming of large numbers of civilians, the international legal and human rights community, shocked by the blatant criminality of the attack, roundly condemned it.
And blatant it was. International humanitarian law (IHL) explicitly prohibits the use of booby traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects (like pagers) that are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material. ….more