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| It is time to talk about the unthinkable: Israel is using chemical weapons For some time now, people have sent me articles with headlines saying that Israel is using chemical weapons. I have not opened them. In part, because I receive and overwhelming amount of e-mail but also simply because I could not face it. I did not want to hear it. They are probably from unreliable sources anyways" I would tell myself. But now it is time to talk about the unthinkable. The number of reports have multipled. Some are from well known and reliable sources. January 24, 2009 [This article is a significant step in the Canadian media's reporting on Israel. There was a time that only blogs and Arab media reported use of chemical weapons by Israel, then the brave Independent and Guardian from the UK. Finally we have a Canadian newspaper that dares to reveal the horible truth about Israel's military tactics. The Gaza assault clearly has outraged and united many against Israel.] TorStar - Gaza teenager's horrific burns blamed on phosphorus shells GAZA CITY –One moment, Mahmoud el-Jamal was running for his life. The next thing he knew, he was being burned alive. "I felt like everything was set on fire around me," el-Jamal, 18, said yesterday. "I felt my body was burning." An instant later, the Palestinian high-school senior blacked out and remembers nothing until many hours later that day, when he was recovering from emergency surgery at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital. By that time, el-Jamal's body was a welter of stitches, clamps and lesions – wounds that continued to riddle his left leg, left hand, chest, right shoulder, and parts of his face yesterday, nearly a week after he ran straight into a wall of liquid fire. The diagnosis: white phosphorus. "We don't normally treat burns like this," said Dr. Nafez Abu Shaban, the head of plastic surgery and the burns unit at Shifa Hospital, who operated on el-Jamal after he showed up, unconscious, at the emergency department Jan. 16.
October 28, 2006 The Independent (UK) - Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb We know that the Israelis used American "bunker-buster" bombs on Hizbollah's Beirut headquarters. We know that they drenched southern Lebanon with cluster bombs in the last 72 hours of the war, leaving tens of thousands of bomblets which are still killing Lebanese civilians every week. And we now know - after it first categorically denied using such munitions - that the Israeli army also used phosphorous bombs, weapons which are supposed to be restricted under the third protocol of the Geneva Conventions, which neither Israel nor the United States have signed.
October 22, 2006 Haaretz - Israel admits using phosphorus bombs during war in LebanonBy Meron Rappaport, Haaretz CorrespondentIsrael has acknowledged for the first time that it attacked Hezbollah targets during the second Lebanon war with phosphorus shells. White phosphorus causes very painful and often lethal chemical burns to those hit by it, and until recently Israel maintained that it only uses such bombs to mark targets or territory. October 17, 2006 Guardian UK - Gaza doctors say patients suffering mystery injuries after Israeli attacks "Bodies arrived severely fragmented, melted and disfigured," said Jumaa Saqa'a, a doctor at Shifa hospital, the main casualty hospital in Gaza City. "We found internal burning of organs, while externally there were minute pieces of shrapnel. When we opened many of the injured people we found dusting on the internal organs."
PNN - Ministry of Health report on toxic Israeli weapons confirmed by Gaza City medical sources Director of Public Relations at Gaza City's Al Shifa Hospital, Dr. Juma Al Sakka, confirmed the Palestinian Ministry of Health's report from earlier this week which stated that Israeli forces are using toxic weapons in the Gaza Strip.
Civilians Bear Fear, Injuries, Death, Grief Jawad Najem, a surgeon at the hospital, said patients admitted Sunday had burns from phosphorous incendiary weapons used by Israel. The Geneva Conventions ban using white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon against civilian populations and in air attacks against military forces in civilian areas. Israel said its weapons comply with international law. more.. Palestinian injuries suggest Israel is using chemical weapons in Gaza Israeli Cluster Munitions Hit Civilians in Lebanon You will find MUCH MORE here. |