I feel like this should unironically be a war crime. The potential for collateral is ridiculously high.
Edit: I'm amazed at how successfully this is being spun as a highly-targeted, high-precision attack with no collateral when it's pretty much the opposite. You can't control what they do with the pagers after they get them. Ffs there were kids killed.
It's not. Taiwanese say that pagers weren't made by them but instead these were made by their Hungarian subsidiary, but that company only has nameplate at residential address. It seems that shipment was for 5000 pagers and extra faje component was added
I read an article saying one type of the pagers that blew up was an Apollo AP-900, which uses triple A alkaline batteries, so there's no way a battery overload could have caused that.
There was a journalist who had an attack on there life via a explosive USB drive. Luckily they plugged it into a hub first which only caused part of it to go off not the entire thing