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Pager attack on Hezbollah was a sophisticated ‘booby-trap’ operation − it was also illegal

By Mary Ellen O'Connell, Professor of Law and International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

The operation that used pagers and walkie-talkies to kill members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was ingenious – but was it legal?

Certainly, there are those who will argue that it was. That thinking goes like this: Hezbollah has been attacking Israel with rockets, and the pagers and radios purchased by Hezbollah could…

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