Pager and walkie-talkie attacks ‘will go down in history of irregular warfare’

Dr Luca Trenta, associate professor, Swansea University, raised questions of ‘proportionality and the effort to distinguish civilians from combatants’ in what he described as a ‘wide-ranging attack’. Dr Trenta, in commentary for the Royal United Services Institute, said: ‘Israel has increasingly shown a tendency to escalate the fighting, bringing the region to the precipice of a wider war.’