Meanwhile on the International front....

The strategic value: “We got your ass. We can, and will, do it again.”

 

More than anything: We don’t need to harm your human shield. We can get you right where you stand. Israel looks scarier. There’s no propaganda value. Most of all: Nowhere is safe.

 

Cell phones, car radios, home solar systems. Basically just about anything electronic.

 

Begging off @Brooklyn Bridge and pagers. Walkie talkies?

 

No, it was cordless.

 

Is that a Tommy Boy reference?

 

They're called doctors.

 

If I were some rando Israeli elite commando expert with skins on the wall, I might just hold my fire on this till I saw massive enemy action was imminent so I get mass psychological effect. In a military setting with forces massed, a single setoff would create much more mayhem with pagers going off simultaneously at close quarters.

Instead they shot their load just for their lolz. Probably not to help Bibi.

 

Killing people who want to erase your country is always a good thing, regardless of the time.

 

These were as much a destabilization as they were a psychological operation. We know who you are, where you are, and how you communicate.