Harvard University Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz on Tuesday wrote in an opinion piece that Israel’s use of pagers and other electronic communications devices as explosives in Lebanon is legal according to “the law of war.”

In an opinion piece published by The Hill, Dershowitz defended Israel’s pager attack against claims that it constitutes a war crime.

Dershowitz says the attack was “completely justified” and allowed under “the law of war,” which he said “is based on two fundamental principles: first, the distinction between the targeting of combatants and civilians; second, the requirement of proportionality in attacking targets that include both.”

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