- 29 juli 2005
Israeli army slated to use new vehicles
1 aug 2005
Unmanned, automated cars slated for use at borders
15 oct 2010, 01:29 , Respect -
Maria 6 dec 2005
Gaza Doctors Encounter 'Unexplained Injuries'
Doctors in Gaza are reporting what they say are unexplained injuries among the dead and wounded in operations by the Israeli military, which have killed more than 200 Palestinians in the past nine weeks.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is considering whether there is a case for an investigation into the injuries amid suspicions by the medics that the injuries were inflicted by what they claim may have been unidentified "non-conventional" weapons.
Beside especially severe burning "down to the bones", the doctors say that, in other cases, internal organs have been ruptured without any obvious sign of shrapnel wounds.
While a report from the Hamas-run Ministry of Health said the injuries raised the possibility Israel could be using "unprecedented" projectiles with "radiant" substances, the medics acknowledge that there is no proof so far of their claims.
They also admit that the difficulty of establishing the exact cause of death is greatly exacerbated by the reluctance of most bereaved Palestinian families to allow autopsies.
Dr Juma al Saqqa, the director of public relations at Shifa Hospital, said the type of injuries presented by some victims were "very strange" and added: "We think this should be studied.
In some cases we have opened the abdomen and found very fragmented organs."
He said this was despite X-rays showing no shrapnel lodged in the patients' bodies.
He said one, unsubstantiated suggestion by sympathetic doctors consulted in Italy was that some injuries might have been caused by phosphorus.
The concerns were aired at the weekend by a group of Palestinian medics during a visit to Gaza by a delegation from Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHR).(Hebr)
He warned Ms The delegation agreed to take away fragments of tissue from the bodies of Palestinians killed during the recent military operations in Gaza for possible analysis in Israel but urged the medics to seek an international investigation.
Dr Ambrogio Manenti, the head of the WHO's West Bank and Gaza office, said the organisation had undertaken a short preliminary assessment of the claims and had now referred the issue to the organisation's headquarters in Geneva so that it can decide whether fuller investigation was appropriate.
The Israel Defence Forces said yesterday all its "weapons and ammunition are legal under international law and conform with international standards".
It said it could not respond in greater detail without more information about the injuries.
A leader of the PHR delegation, Professor Zvi Bentwich, said PHR was focusing on raising the numbers of patients allowed out of Gaza into Israel and Egypt for treatment and the relief of equipment and medicine shortages because of frequent closures of the main Karni crossing, and external training for Palestinian medical staff.
PHR is pressing the Israeli authorities to reduce the costs of patients being treated in Israel. Professor Bentwich said the denial of external specialist treatment to Palestinians was a denial "of the basic human right to health".
He added that military operations since militants captured the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in June had "exacerbated an already appalling situation".
The army said the attacks were aimed at releasing Cpl Shalit and halting the firing of rockets into Israel.
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Maria 7 aug 2006
New and unknown deadly weapons used by Israeli forces
by Professor Paola Manduca
'Direct energy' weapons, chemical and/or biological agents, in a macabre experiment of future warfare
By now there are countless reports, from hospitals, witnesses, armament experts and journalists that strongly suggest that in the present offensive of Israeli forces against Lebanon and Gaza 'new weapons' are being used.
New and strange symptoms are reported amongst the wounded and the dead.
-- Bodies with dead tissues and no apparent wounds; 'shrunken' corpses;
-- civilians with heavy damage to lower limbs that require amputation, which is nevertheless followed by unstoppable necrosis and death;
-- descriptions of extensive internal wounds with no trace of shrapnel, corpses blackened but not burnt, and others heavily wounded that did not bleed.
Many of these descriptions suggest the possibility that the new weapons used include 'direct energy' weapons, and chemical and/or biological agents, in a sort of macabre experiment of future warfare, where there is no respect for anything:
International rules (from the Geneva Convention to the treaties on biological and chemical weapons).
Refugees, hospitals and the Red Cross.
Not to mention the people, their future, their children.
The environment which is poisoned through dissemination of Depleted Uranium
And toxic substances released after oil and chemical depots are bombed.
Right now, the Lebanese and Palestinian people have many urgent and impellent problems, yet many people believe that these episodes cannot and must not pass ignored.
In fact several appeals have been launched to scientists and experts with a view to investigating the issue.
With the intent of responding to such appeals, we have set up a team to investigate the testimonies, the images, and possibly the material evidence that delegations and NGOs will be able to bring from the affected areas.
Ask constantly for help and external verification and monitoring
The international committee is to report to the competent authorities, including the Human Rights tribunals and international courts, if appropriate.
As people and as scientists, we are offering our time and expertise in order to reach an understanding of the underlying facts, in the belief that a perspective of justice, equity and peace among people can be reached only with the respect of the rules defined up to now within the international community of nations.
The issue pertains to the behavior of the parties in an armed conflict.
We ask that the respect of these rules be verified in the context of the present conflict.
We invite scientists to contribute to this effort by offering their specific competences.
In particular we seek collaboration of toxicology experts, pharmacologists, anatomy pathologists, doctors with an expertise in trauma and burns, chemists.
They can reach the working group at the E-mail address: nuovearmi at gmail.com
Paola Manduca, Professor of Genetics, University of Genova, Italy
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2918 - 12 jan 2009
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Gaza's War Crimes - Israel/Palestine
(21:45) Gaza's War Crimes - Israel/Palestine
Gaza war crimes investigation
This powerful report looks at the alleged Israeli war crimes committed during the Gaza War. We show blindfolded children being used as human shields alongside innocent civilians and medics being targeted.
Mounir's eyes search around the old house as he recounts the events of 16th January, when a rocket fired from an unmanned aerial vehicle killed his sister, her husband and four of her children. The scene he says will never leave him. 'We found Mohammed lying there, cut in half. Ahmed was in three pieces; Wahid was totally burnt his eyes were gone. Wahid's father was dead. Nour had been decapitated. We couldn't see her head anywhere.' The attack on this home in Gaza City is just one of more than a dozen incidents recorded by Amnesty International where Israel's unmanned aerial vehicles killed civilians.
This powerful report looks at the alleged Israeli war crimes committed during the Gaza War. We show blindfolded children being used as human shields alongside innocent civilians and medics being targeted.
- 16 febr 2009
Israel tested new weapons in Gaza?
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Maria 23 febr 2009
Mark Regev admits Israel used White Phosphorus Bombs after cover up
(0:33) Mark Regev admits Israel used White Phosphorus Bombs after cover up 5 x viewed
WHITE PHOSPHOROUS 5 days after still smoldering in the UN compound
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(3:41) Amazing Footage White Phosphorus Gaza
Class interview Mark Regev On The Ropes (War Crimes)
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Maria Israel's White Phosphorus Bombs 1/2
Israel's White Phosphorus Bombs 2/2