Lebanon's Children and Israeli Phosphorous  Bombs

Randa Takieddin,  Al-Hayat
Source:   _http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m25091&hd=0&size=1&l=e_ 
(http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m25091&hd=0&size=1&l=e)  


     

July  26, 2006

Did  the American people see on CNN the child whose face was burnt by Israeli 
 phosphorous bombs in Lebanon?  Did they hear him screaming in pain at  Sidon 
 Hospital,  with his mother falling to pieces in agony beside him because of 
the  injury he sustained from the terrible bombs? How can the American people  
accept their elected President George W. Bush's rejection of a ceasefire?  

The insanity of the Jewish State that is brutally attacking  families and 
children in South  Lebanon  and in Beirut's  southern suburb has almost become an 
everyday feature in the Palestinian  territories.

Can the disaster that has befallen  Lebanon,  in which fathers, mothers and 
children have lost their homes and  relatives, be a solution for the  US  
administration and the Jewish State?  

Lebanon  is grateful for the millions-of-dollars worth of humanitarian aid 
from the  US,  but it will never forget that the  US  administration gave Israel 
 the green light to continue with the shelling and destruction in this  dirty 
war. 

The US  administration claims that it had asked  Israel  not to hit Lebanon's 
 infrastructure. But Israel  has indiscriminately destroyed everything: 
airports, bridges, seaports,  roads and houses. Israel's  aim is to devastate and 
kill. 

In  Lebanon,  as in the Palestinian territories,  Israel's  soldiers, the 
grandsons of the victims of the Holocaust, have demonstrated  their inclination 
to use terrifying weapons, such as phosphorus bombs.  This is disgraceful for a 
people who had suffered from torture and  brutality. 

Whatever the outcome of  Israel's  war on Lebanon,  the Jewish State has 
shown that it knows no solution except the use of  force. This solution leads to 
more violence, war and  hatred.
Source: _http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m25091&hd=0&size=1&l=e_ 
(http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m25091&hd=0&size=1&l=e)  
The Israeli army is  using chemical weapons and Depleted Uranium against 
Lebanese  civilians
Related Link: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/  
From the victims of  Zyklon-B to the users of White Phosphorus 
Below is a  copied/pasted article from the Wayne Madsen Report website.

U.S. military  intelligence sources have told WMR that the artillery shell 
shown below being  used by an Israel Defense Force member in Lebanon, is a type 
of dual and  multi-use weapon the neocons falsely accused Saddam Hussein of 
possessing.  Although the canister artillery shell is marketed as an anti-land 
mine fuel-air  bomb, its payload can also include the chemicals used in 
thermobaric bombs,  white phosphorous weapons, and chemical weapons. Thermobaric 
bombs contain  polymer-bonded explosives or solid fuel-air explosives in their 
payloads.  Thermobarics use a fuse munition unit (FMU) such as that seen on the 
nose of the  Israeli artillery shell. The shell penetrates buildings, 
underground shelters,  or tunnels, creating such a blast pressure that all the oxygen 
is sucked out  from the spaces and the lungs of anyone who happens to be in 
proximity. Israel's use of such  "vacuum" weapons has been reported from across 
Lebanon.  
The artillery shell  below, with its FMU penetrator, can also be used to 
deliver chemical weapons,  the use of which is also being reported from southern 
Lebanon. In addition, it can  deliver white phosphorous, a substance that 
literally melts through skin but  leaves clothing relatively intact. In Fallujah 
and elsewhere in Iraq, U.S. forces have used  white phosphorous on civilians, 
leaving grotesque corpses as a psychological  warfare reminder to the civilian 
population to surrender or evacuate an area.  The photo from Sidon of a burnt 
and badly  disfigured young Lebanese girl is a telltale sign of white 
phosphorous use by  the Israelis. Similar photos from Fallujah were shown to this 
editor by a top  investigative reporter for Italy's RAI television  network. 

U.S. military  intelligence experts believe the ease at which the Israeli 
soldier is handling  the artillery shell is an indication that the payload 
contains light-weight gas  and not a fuel-air mixture or thermobaric bomb 
components. WMR continues to  receive reports from Lebanon of depleted uranium  shells 
being used by the Israelis. The New  York Times today is  reporting that the 
U.S. is stepping up its  delivery of "precision-guided" munitions to Israel (see 
article below  on Bush administration pre-planning for the Israeli invasions 
of Lebanon and Gaza). 
Related Link: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/  
Bracewell's Blog 
FORBES: Israel Using Chemical Weapons  -and- Targetting Ambulances 
By _Bracewell_ (javascript:ol('http://www.tpmcafe.com/user/16509/recent');)  
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I   HAVE  EXCERPTED  AND  RE-ORGANIZED  THE  ARTICLE   FOR  BREVITY  AND  
SALIENCE. 
Lebanese  Hospital Struggles With Wounded        FORBES  
ISRAELI   CHEMICAL  WEAPONS  USAGE: 
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 phosphorous 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.  
"Mahmoud Sarour, 14, was admitted to the hospital yesterday and treated for  
phosphorous burns to his face," Najem said. Mahmoud's 8-month-old sister,  
Maryam, suffered similar burns on her neck and hands when an Israeli rocket hit  
the family car.  
ISRAELI   ATTACK  RED-CROSS  AMBULANCES 
the Lebanese  Red Cross suspended operations outside Tyre after Israeli jets  
blasted two ambulances with rockets, said Ali Deebe, a Red Cross spokesman in 
Tyre.   The  rocket attack on the two vehicles wounded six ambulance workers 
and three  civilians - an 11-year-old boy, an elderly woman and a man, Deebe 
said.  
"One of the rockets hit right in the middle of the big red cross that was  
painted on top of the ambulance," he said. "This is a clear violation of  
humanitarian law, of international law. We are neutral and we should not be  
targeted."   Amateur video provided by an ambulance worker confirmed  Deebe's account 
of damage to the vehicles  
Lebanese Doctor  Says 'Phosphorus Weapons' Cause Suffering –CNN -  Video 
1:50   Lebanese  doctors say the Israelis are packing their shells with 
chemicals 
2:55   The wound smells of  phosphorus and the tissue is black 
RECALL: 
ISRAEL: USING  NEW CHEMICAL AMMUNITIONS  
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