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Press TV – Sept 18, 2024

As acts of terrorism continued in Lebanon for a second consecutive day, US officials have quietly and brazenly allowed Israel’s widespread targeting of communication devices used by Lebanese citizens, resulting in over 3,000 casualties.

While US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller on Tuesday denied any involvement in the attacks—ranging from pager to walkie-talkie explosions—he also refused to condemn what has been widely described as terrorist acts by the occupying regime in Tel Aviv.

Some US lawmakers, however, have gone further, openly supporting the bombings and praising the embattled Benjamin Netanyahu regime in Tel Aviv for targeting Lebanese civilians.

Congressman Brad Sherman, a Democratic representative for California’s 32nd congressional district, took to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday to express his approval of the attacks.

“Let’s be clear – in its strategic attack on #Hezbollah, #Israel employed innovative methods to conduct a precise military operation, maximizing the elimination of terrorists while minimizing civilian harm by targeting military communication devices,” Sherman tweeted.

Sherman claimed that the devices destroyed on Tuesday and Wednesday were used solely by Hezbollah members, suggesting that Israel was justified in its actions to “eliminate” them.

However, reports indicate that the majority of those killed or injured were civilians, including two children—8-year-old Bilal Kanj and 9-year-old Fatima Jaafar Abdullah.

Abdullah was killed on Tuesday in the initial wave of pager explosions, while Kanj succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday. Many have been critically injured with their limbs amputated.

Among the injured on Tuesday was Iran’s ambassador to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani, who is reportedly in stable condition at a Beirut hospital.

Sherman demanded that the Iranian diplomat “explain” why he possessed a “Hezbollah military communication device,” disregarding the fact that a pager is a common communication tool used in the Arab country and not a weapon.

Sherman has been one of the biggest recipients of donations from Zionist lobbyists.

Stop Zionist Hate, a US-based non-partisan organization opposing Zionism and Zionist extremism, posted on X that Sherman is effectively a paid agent for the Israeli regime.

“Let’s be clear—Brad Sherman is paid to shill for Israel,” they wrote, sharing a figure of $771,883 that Sherman had reportedly received by February 5, 2024.

Let's be clear - Brad Sherman is paid to shill for Israel. https://t.co/Px4rde92eW> pic.twitter.com/J7Q4V8k5qU

— SZH (@StopZionistHate) September 18, 2024

https://twitter.com/StopZionistHate/status/1836438369401798741

AIPAC Tracker, which monitors the influence of Israeli lobby groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on US politics, confirmed this in a post on X, noting that Sherman has received more than $777,000 from pro-Israel lobbyists.