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Israel rains fire on Gaza with phosphorus shells
Sheera Frenkel and Michael Evans
London Times
Monday, Jan 5, 2008
Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault on the heavily populated Gaza Strip yesterday. The weapon, used by British and US forces in Iraq, can cause horrific burns but is not illegal if used as a smokescreen.
As the Israeli army stormed to the edges of Gaza City and the Palestinian death toll topped 500, the tell-tale shells could be seen spreading tentacles of thick white smoke to cover the troops’ advance. “These explosions are fantastic looking, and produce a great deal of smoke that blinds the enemy so that our forces can move in,” said one Israeli security expert. Burning blobs of phosphorus would cause severe injuries to anyone caught beneath them and force would-be snipers or operators of remote-controlled booby traps to take cover. Israel admitted using white phosphorus during its 2006 war with Lebanon.
The use of the weapon in the Gaza Strip, one of the world’s mostly densely population areas, is likely to ignite yet more controversy over Israel’s offensive, in which more than 2,300 Palestinians have been wounded.
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The Geneva Treaty of 1980 stipulates that white phosphorus should not be used as a weapon of war in civilian areas, but there is no blanket ban under international law on its use as a smokescreen or for illumination. However, Charles Heyman, a military expert and former major in the British Army, said: “If white phosphorus was deliberately fired at a crowd of people someone would end up in The Hague. White phosphorus is also a terror weapon. The descending blobs of phosphorus will burn when in contact with skin.”
The Israeli military last night denied using phosphorus, but refused to say what had been deployed. “Israel uses munitions that are allowed for under international law,” said Captain Ishai David, spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces. “We are pressing ahead with the second stage of operations, entering troops in the Gaza Strip to seize areas from which rockets are being launched into Israel.”
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January 5th, 2009 at 11:05 am
they used this in nam. israel is doing whatever it takes to stop hamas rocket fire !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....annel_page
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January 5th, 2009 at 11:23 am
how dare you……….
You must have not fought over there nor have you have you shot anyone or ever held a gun that you scumbag…..Shut your mouth and go back to nazi land!
January 5th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Power corrupts….
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January 10th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:48 am
White phosphorous burns when it comes in contact with the skin. Putting water on smoking, burning skin and muscles actually makes it worse. This is why it is a “terror weapon” – how convenient that Israel is using it for a “smokescreen” and for “illumination” KNOWING that the Gazans have no where to hide since they are so densely packed and so many buildings (including schools and hospitals) are being bombed.
Despicable!!!
January 5th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Isreal, would use nukes o them if the fall out did kill the jews in the settlements.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Evil willypete burns thru human skin and bone. its self oxygenating and almost imposible to put out. the United Hates, used it extensivly in viet Nam and was out lawed. I geuss Iseal thinks it will just float in the air, right friggen scum bags. we will see if any Palistinians survive this the war crimes, wait its not a war its a police action, not bound by war crimes act. The news black out will not last forever the World will see the extent of this extermination.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
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January 5th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Jews are the children of satan the are cruel wicked evil animals the enjoy hurting anyone they can
January 5th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
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January 5th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
like shooting fish in a barrel im sure
January 5th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Major Charles Heyman is right. Please send President Bush to The Hague now for selling this stuff.
http://prosecutegeorgebush.com/book.htm
I remember there was an episode of M*A*S*H where the North Koreans were using white phosphorus bullets. The actors said it burns very hot and is highly toxic.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
http://www.israelnationalnews......spx/128897
Missile and Mortar Attacks on Israel Pass 10,000 Mark
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(IsraelNN.com) Gaza terrorists escalated attacks on the western Negev Tuesday, pushing to 10,046 the number of mortar and rocket attacks the past eight years…
One Israeli suffered shock in the latest barrage, which included five Kassam rockets and a mortar shell. One rocket exploded in a soccer field next to the Sapir College, located adjacent to Sderot, and the other rockets landed in open areas outside the city. The IDF identified and hit a Kassam launcher in northern Gaza, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced that he would continue diplomatic non-military retaliation by keeping Gaza crossings closed and preventing trucks from bringing goods into the region…
Media outlets have been emphasizing December 19 as the end of six months since outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to the June 19 ceasefire, although no expiry date was set in the unsigned agreement. Hamas has adopted the date as the end of the pact and has threatened to consider the agreement void even thought it already does not exist in practice…
More than 225 attacks were registered in the past six weeks, and the Sderot Media Center reported that 7,000 mortars and rockets have been fired since Israel executed the “Disengagement” program in the summer of 2005. The government expelled more than 7,000 Jewish residents of Gush Katif and northern Gaza, withdrew all military personnel and surrendered control of the Philadelphi Route, which includes the Rafiah area used to smuggle explosives and weapons into Gaza…
January 5th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
I cannot believe that the world OUR WORLD is doing nothing!!!!!!!…It’s like see no evil…speak no evil…and hear no evil!….Damm you Israel to HELL for your Zionist ways which are so filled with self greed and pride that stinks the world it’s unreal and demonic!!…I wonder if Hitler would even allow this insane perverse actions that Zionism is making!!!!!…You used him for YOUR advantages then kill him off…So you can get the Soviet KGB crap in the world!!!…Hitler knew the plans of Stalin and his evil ways of Zionism!!!
January 5th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Why does Israel have to play double standards…It’s like Our way or the Highway! And f— …everyone else!
January 5th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Israel along with all that supprot them will pay big time .. The neocons of the USA will go down with them..
January 5th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
white phosphorus my ass!it was likely smoke grenades!phosphorus grenades will melt through armour!
January 5th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
RUSSIA NWO2 Eat shit and die, just another MEGAPHONE jew, for anyone who isn’t a zionist brainwashed idiot knows the JEWS are responsible for many of the world’s ills. Hell, you,ve been removed from every country in europe at least once, people then saw you for what you are. War-mongers, interested only in profit, awareness is slowly coming to americans, be prepared to be lynched. To any jew who feels that I’m anti-semitic, you better off the zionist yourselves lest you risk the gallows pole, your silence is consiracy in and of itself.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
The Bush & Cheney pigs may well have had white phosphorous used in the illegal Iraq invasion too!
Apartheid Israel has been committing genocide against Palestinians ever since it was invented in 1947!!!
Zionist were very complicit in the 9/11 false-flag attack: http://www.911missinglinks.com/
January 5th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Can anyone tell me why we blindly support Israel no matter what?What do they have over the U.S.?
January 5th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
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January 5th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Hamas rains rockets on Israel. I guess you guys refuse to recognize that Hamas violated international law as well as violated a treaty that they willingly signed onto. Go figure. Oh, by the way, the rockets that Hamas has been lobbing into Isreal (over 3000 now, but who is counting) have the ability to blow off peoples legs and arms. C’mon guys, let’s see how your hate blinds you to the absolute truth.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
We all know what my hero Mel Gibson said about the chosen. If Mel Gibson says so, it is so. The gibson’s sound like one family I could get along with. Old man gibson(hutton)is a straight shooter. I bet me and Mel feel the same way over this jewtastrophy of a war.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
I can’t believe all the illiterate dolts in this post. Why don’t you all learn to formulate sentences before you try to ’share’ your thoughts with the rest of the world. You can’t spell, you have no sentence structure and your thoughts are incoherent.
Jews are not evil. The Zionist faction of Judaism is just like the right wing Neocons are. All religions have their dark side as well as much good. Regular Jewish people are most often good people.
Grow some brain matter.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Just like Haman in the old testament, who was hung by the gallows he created for someone else, so is Israel building her own destruction by trying to destroy the Palestinians. These are not God’s people in Israel doing this, rather the demon Zionists who have nothing do do with Judaism or God, and only represent the NWO satanists. They ultimately will be destroyed, along with anyone who aides them.
January 6th, 2009 at 2:03 am
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January 6th, 2009 at 5:12 am
Nuke Israel. Kill them all, let God sort them out!
January 6th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Hey I got a link from a guy that says the IDF broke the ceasefire:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050426.html
January 6th, 2009 at 8:49 am
White Phosphorus, Willy Pete, Whiskey Pete, is indiscriminate; it burns people
beyond recognition and leaves their clothes unburned. If this chemical wheapon
of mas destruction is breathed into the lungs it burns out everything it makes
contact with that contains moisture suffocating the victim. The use of this wheapon
is considered a war crime against humanity.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:03 am
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January 7th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Those ‘evil invaders’ gave this land to the uni-brow, knuckle-dragging 10th century throwbacks in order to engage them in a search for peaceful coexistance. Yet, they used the land and industry infrastucture like the childish ape-children they are.
They looted the irrigation factory, (dang! so THAT”s how they got the desert to produce food) they are using the land to launch aggressive, violent and deadly attacks into Israel.
I still believe in the right of conquest. If Israel kicks their a$$’s then they get the land and hopefully they will hang on to it and use it for peaceful purposes instead of what they are currently doing.
It’s funny how all of these comments are against those Jews and Israel. You folks really worry me.
January 8th, 2009 at 7:15 am
This is a war about the Gaza natural gas fields which legally belong to the Palestinians but the Israelis want to control. This is why Egypt isn’t helping the Palestinians and also makes Turkey’s efforts dubious at best.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/i.....;aid=11680
January 8th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
http://www.globalresearch.ca/i.....;aid=11680
January 10th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Please do not blame (Devout) Jewish in Israel that have warned about the (Secular) Zionist-Gov from the early 1900’s.
As a Christian I also was ignorant and misled by misled Christian leaders about Zionism. yet (devout) Jewis people obedient to God and Torah have nothing to do with the Zionist-Gov demonic killing in Gaza, secular Zionist’s today apparently being the sanctuary of Satan spoken of in Revelations.
Go to my webpage (http://rtpricetag.home.comcast.....eived.html) and read about the error (Zionism) being taught by the misled or false teacher and prophet.
January 10th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
if not to blame the jews its the zionist of course to blame because they are rhe rulers of israel and many of their ministers and governers have clear speeches about killing all the arabs in palistine and geting rid of them… and what is going on now in gaza is the 2008/2009 episode of this drama …has been performed previously since 1948 when handreds of villages and towns had been distroed and lots of their people have became refugee in gaza strip itself and now they are being killed for the 4th time after 1956 1967 and the mentioned 1948>>>
January 10th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
The sad thing for Israel is that, they will pay back for these assaults in four to five years or time. For Palestine, they have nothing to loose cos they don’t have anything not even food or meds. But for Israel when they pay, their cost would be 100 times higher than the cost Palestinians pay for the current man slaughtering. So the real looser of the war is Israel.
Where is the world????? How could we kill our children??? how could we???
January 15th, 2009 at 6:19 am
so THIS is the democracy and civilisation these assholes pretend to bring to the region?
one almost sympathizes with that madman ajmadinezhad – so THIS is how ISRAEL respects international law? remember , oh evil evil israel: in your history ( which everybody can read in the BIBLE) you have been astray a hundred times , you have trespassed permanently and we still wonder WHAT makes you so CHOSEN by GOD;this shitty little nation which always brings war and hatred to the rest of the world, but REMEMBER ISRAEL: every time you lost the path of decency ( and what you do NOW has absolutely nothing to do with fighting for freedom or self defense ) you were punished terribly by your GOD – this time will be no exception but given the terrible weapons your enemies might already have, this could be your last crazy and absurd spasm in order to impose your idiotic ideas upon the world : I am by no means anti semitic but personal experience taught me to AVOID jews like hellfire: one always ends up defrauded, betrayed, stolen from, lied to , etc – as a non jew. you might say, well, they are only human etc – but then:
my experience has shown me that NOT A SINGLE JEW I MET IN MY ENTIRE LIFETIME ( and I met quite a few) was EVER decent, honest and real in the end – they are masters of big promises which they never intend to keep and I must agree with the german philosopher schopenhauer who said long time ago: the jews are the masters of the lie and this ugly war is the BIGGEST jewish lie of today – it cannot be blamed any longer on ” accident ” or that I havent ” yet met the goody good jews ” etc – its all too much of a coincidence to me and I have given it a lot of patience and observation, wherever jews have POWER, they ABUSE it, they COLDLY and CRIMINALLY use it like mad against the world, and one of my last bosses in an office was a jew who told the small group in a sales training that they ” should work more on their CRIMINAL ENERGY as they seemed to ” decent and soft” to him. CRIMINAL ENERGY IS YOUR TRADEMARK THEN, OH EVIL ISRAEL!!
there were, by the way, many many jews in berlin and the rest of germany WHO SYMPATHIZED WITH HITLER around 1933 AND WANTED A NAZI PARTY OF THEIR OWN as they considered themselves to be emigrants de luxe , chosen emigrants, again, better than the rest of the russian, polish, italien and turkish bunch there .this horrid snobism, this stinking metaphysical arrogance has always cashed a terrible price and will do so again, I guess rather sooner than later and then – no israeli will have the right to COMPLAIN as according to latest polls some 90 percent of them are IN FAVOUR OF THIS BRUTAL MASSACRE going on now and only some 4 percent of decent human beings there are left who are nauseated, bewildered and terrfied at the sheer imbecility of this carnage which, like all the others, will bring no peace, in fact, it will bring ANYTHING BUT peace
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