the UN thought it was a violation of IHL anyway. Even a rigged FPV headset is still technically a boobytrap and there's no absolute guarantee they couldn't be picked up and used by civilians?
(the pager attacks seem to have done not that much civilian harm compared to all the conventional bombs subsequently dropped on Beirut so it's kind of academic...)
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