Algerie Presse Service, the official government news agency in Algeria, carries they following on this page:
Irrefutable evidences on Israel’s use of prohibited weapons
GAZA- The official of the Emergency Rescue Committee in Gaza Strip, Dr Mounir al Barch indicated Wednesday the existence of irrefutable evidences of Israel’s use of prohibited weapons on the Palestinian civilians. "We detain [sic] irrefutable evidences on the use by Israel of prohibited weapons like the American-manufactured 821a1 missile, sold in 2004 to Israel and used in Iraq, in Afghanistan and in Lebanon”, [note: unproven allegation] Dr. Al Barch told the APS. These weapons "include phosphorus which catches fire on contact with oxygen ... and remains on fire as far as oxygen is not cut. [sic]
Touching the skin or inhaled, the phosphorus causes burns that can go deep to the bones," Al Barch said, while pointing out that several doctors presented these symptoms after touching this burning substance while treating injured people." [Highly unlikely in a modern medical facility such as exists in Gaza]
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.
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... Palestinians were using phosphorus weapons of their own and [...] a phosphorus bomb exploded in the western Negev region of Israel yesterday. It was among 14 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel. No one was injured in the attacks.
Just in case you wondered where it was, here is the distortion, lies, and anti-Israel bit from that article in The Times:
Mr Roth said that Human Rights Watch had experts in the region who had witnessed the use of phosphorus shells.
“Even if Israel might have some minor chemical variation of white phosphorus so that the thing they're using has a new name, the effect is absolutely the same,” he said.
He agreed there was no ban on using the chemical to protect troops. “But it should not be used in civilian areas because there's a parallel duty to take all conceivable precautions to protect the lives of non-combatants,” Mr Roth said.
Yes, that’s all very well, Mr. Roth, but do please, if you can, tell us all why you have studiously ignored the Arab usage of such weapons?
Apparently, and also from that article in The Times:
Hebrew writing on the shell casing [of the single weapon alledgedly found in Gaza and referred to by Dr. Mounir al Barch in the quote at the beginning of this post] reads “exploding smoke” — the term the Israeli army uses for white phosphorus.
I have tried very hard to confirm that such Hebrew wording is indeed displayed upon the shell casing of the phosphorous weapons in the IDF’s armoury and that such wording, if present, could survive the searing heat generated by the use and explosion of such a shell. I am assured by my sources, which may be unreliable as I would be the first to admit, that no such wording exists upon any such shell in the IDF’s armoury and that if such wording were to be present on the outside of the casing of a phosphorous shell, as alleged, then, given the nature of such a shell, no such marking could survive the detonation of such a shell and no fragment of the shell casing of such a shell, of sufficient size to identify any inscription which may have been present on the casing whatsoever, could be present on the ground after the use of such a shell, as is alleged, because of the force of the explosive detonation and the extremely high temperatures reached in such an explosion which, unlike conventional explosive shells, vaporises the paint covering of the shell casing, instantly, at the moment of detonation.
Furthermore, I am informed that all the phosphorous shells in the IDF’s armoury are designed to explode well above the ground to provide initial illumination for the targeters of other weapons and subsequent falling thick smoke to confuse and disorientate the enemy. Of course, and I admit it, the information provided to me may be wrong, but at this moment I am forced to conclude that the chemical burns sustained by the sixteen year old Abdul Rahman Shaer were far more likely to have been incurred by his handling of a faulty Hamas owned phosphorous weapon which exploded, or leaked, before it could be launched than by a deliberately launched and detonated IDF weapon.
According to The Times the sole victim of the IDF’s lone phosphorous shell is,
as detailed here, one Abdul Rahman Shaer (16):
A suspected phosphorus victim was taken from Gaza across the border into Egypt yesterday. Abdul Rahman Shaer, 16, was transferred to an Egyptian hospital from Rafah. He was suffering from severe chemical burns to his face and body. Paramedics from Gaza said that doctors at the hospital were sure the chemical agent was phosphorus.
Exactly how the Doctors are sure is, of course, not detailed. The Times follows the party line, so to speak, without question, and does not ask for forensic evidence, which would be suspect, of course, in any event.
There is, needles to say given the usual and only to be expected Arab duplicity, another explanation: namely that Abdul Rahman Shaer, if he exists and if he was burned, is a willing, or unwillingly coerced, dupe who was deliberately burned by his own side and then quickly removed to a hospital in Egypt before he could be questioned. Surely, not even Hamas, or the Hamas sanctioned terrorists in Gaza, would go that far to score propaganda points!
Would they?
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