Alarm Spreads Over Use of Lethal New Weapons
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Extract from ChinaView dtd 27.1.09 ." CAIRO, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- The permanent representatives of the Cairo-based Arab League(AL) decided on Monday to file an investigation request to the United Nations(UN) on the alleged Israeli "war crimes" in its attacks on Gaza.
The delegates from 22 Arab nations agreed at the extraordinary session to ask the UN General Assembly to "form an international committee to investigate Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip and to set up a criminal court to try Israeli war criminals," the Egyptian MENA news agency said.
The pan-Arab bloc also decided to send a fact-finding committee to Gaza to present a report on the so-called war crimes, including the use of white phosphorus and depleted uranium munitions, it added.
Moreover, AL Secretary General Amr Moussa said that he had informed International Criminal Court's(ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo of the matter, noting that it will be discussed at the international level. "
I hope more world bodies will press for UN investigation as this is unprecedented violation of international laws on war. Israel is the ocuppying force in Gaza and West Bank.
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HAMAS FIRES FROM GAZA FOREIGN PRESS BUILDING
During the conflict Hamas didn’t only fire at Israel from hospitals and UN schools but also from the offices of Arab news media.
Here is live footage of al-Arabiya TV reporter Hannan al-Masri as she learns that a Hamas missile was being fired from her building which houses the al-Arabiya studio in Gaza.
The clip :
Hamas fires from foreign Press building in Gaza January 2009 - Unintentional News from Alarabiya-TV
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Duplicate post !
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Aaaw so horrifying.
Never thought Israel could be so barbaric. So many civilian lives are lost. Now those who survived will still have to go through their ordeal of surviving.
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Israeli army used flechettes against Gaza civilians
27 January 2009
Apart from white phosphorus, the Israeli army used a variety of other weapons in densely populated civilian areas of Gaza in the three-week conflict that began on 27 December.
Flechettes are 4cm long metal darts that are sharply pointed at the front, with four fins at the rear. Between 5,000 and 8,000 are packed into 120mm shells which are generally fired from tanks. The shells explode in the air and scatter the flechettes in a conical pattern over an area about 300m wide and 100m long.
An anti-personnel weapon designed to penetrate dense vegetation, flechettes should never be used in built-up civilian areas. The Israeli army has used them in Gaza periodically for several years. In most cases their use has resulted in civilians being killed or injured.
Amnesty International's fact-finding team in Gaza first heard about the use of flechettes in the most recent conflict some ten days ago. The father of one of the victims showed the team a flechette which had been taken out of his son's body.
In its latest post on Amnesty International's Livewire blog, the team described how on Monday it visited towns and villages around Gaza and found more hard evidence of the use of flechettes.
In 'Izbat Beit Hanoun, to the south-west of the town of Beit Hanoun, several flechette shells were fired into the main road, killing two people and injuring several others on the morning of 5 January.
Wafa' Nabil Abu Jarad, a 21-year-old pregnant mother of two, was one of those killed. Her husband and her mother-in-law told the team that the family had just had breakfast and were outside the house drinking tea in the sun.
Wafa' and her husband were standing by the corner of the house when they heard a noise, followed by screams. They turned to go back into their house but at that moment Wafa' and several other members of the family were hit by flechettes. Wafa’ was killed outright.
That same day, at the other end of the street, 16-year-old Islam Jaber Abd-al-Dayem was struck in the neck by a flechette. He was taken to the hospital's intensive care unit but died three days later. Mizar, his brother, was injured in the same attack and still has a flechette lodged in his back.
In the village of al-Mughraqa on the morning of 7 January, a shell struck the room where Atta Hassan Aref Azzam was sitting with two of his children, Mohammed, aged 13 and Hassan, aged two and a half. All three were killed. The six other members of the family who were in the house fled to the nearest school for shelter. The team examined the bloodstained wall by which the three were killed. It was full of flechettes. -
My goodness, Israel has really lost her senses and becoming more and more barbaric!
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Originally posted by freedomclub:
Israeli army used flechettes against Gaza civilians
27 January 2009
Apart from white phosphorus, the Israeli army used a variety of other weapons in densely populated civilian areas of Gaza in the three-week conflict that began on 27 December.
Flechettes are 4cm long metal darts that are sharply pointed at the front, with four fins at the rear. Between 5,000 and 8,000 are packed into 120mm shells which are generally fired from tanks. The shells explode in the air and scatter the flechettes in a conical pattern over an area about 300m wide and 100m long.
An anti-personnel weapon designed to penetrate dense vegetation, flechettes should never be used in built-up civilian areas. The Israeli army has used them in Gaza periodically for several years. In most cases their use has resulted in civilians being killed or injured.
Amnesty International's fact-finding team in Gaza first heard about the use of flechettes in the most recent conflict some ten days ago. The father of one of the victims showed the team a flechette which had been taken out of his son's body.
In its latest post on Amnesty International's Livewire blog, the team described how on Monday it visited towns and villages around Gaza and found more hard evidence of the use of flechettes.
In 'Izbat Beit Hanoun, to the south-west of the town of Beit Hanoun, several flechette shells were fired into the main road, killing two people and injuring several others on the morning of 5 January.
Wafa' Nabil Abu Jarad, a 21-year-old pregnant mother of two, was one of those killed. Her husband and her mother-in-law told the team that the family had just had breakfast and were outside the house drinking tea in the sun.
Wafa' and her husband were standing by the corner of the house when they heard a noise, followed by screams. They turned to go back into their house but at that moment Wafa' and several other members of the family were hit by flechettes. Wafa’ was killed outright.
That same day, at the other end of the street, 16-year-old Islam Jaber Abd-al-Dayem was struck in the neck by a flechette. He was taken to the hospital's intensive care unit but died three days later. Mizar, his brother, was injured in the same attack and still has a flechette lodged in his back.
In the village of al-Mughraqa on the morning of 7 January, a shell struck the room where Atta Hassan Aref Azzam was sitting with two of his children, Mohammed, aged 13 and Hassan, aged two and a half. All three were killed. The six other members of the family who were in the house fled to the nearest school for shelter. The team examined the bloodstained wall by which the three were killed. It was full of flechettes.Qassam rockets should not be fired into densely populated areas too.
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The US or the Soviet should supply them with bioweapons to kill each other...when both sides population are dead, let the free world claim their resources
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The US is already supplying Israel with $3 billion worth of military aid every year plus billions more in military cooperation. How do you think Israel could waltz in there and bomb the shit out of Gaza, shelling entire neighbourhoods into the ground?
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Originally posted by Jianye:
The US or the Soviet should supply them with bioweapons to kill each other...when both sides population are dead, let the free world claim their resources
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Originally posted by googoomuck:
Qassam rockets should not be fired into densely populated areas too.
"The Qassam rocket (Arabic: صاروخ القسام Ṣ�rūkh al-Qass�m; also Kassam) is a simple steel rocket filled with explosives, produced by Hamas. Three models have been used. They are all free-flying artillery rockets lacking any guidance system.
The rocket has gained significant notoriety through its development and deployment by Hamas against Israeli targets in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Since 2001, Qassam rockets have claimed the lives of at least 28 Israelis and injured hundreds (as of 9 January 2009)"
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket
That really puts things into perspective, doesnt it?
8600 rockets killing 28 Israelis. I wonder how many JDAMs Israel used during the Gaza offensive to get a score of 1200 Palestinians?
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The Qassam rockets should have been filled with anthrax, sarin, ricin to maximise civilian casualties...
Another armanent will be cluster bombs or naplam charges
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Originally posted by Jianye:
The Qassam rockets should have been filled with anthrax, sarin, ricin to maximise civilian casualties...
Another armanent will be cluster bombs or naplam charges
Qassam rockets are packed with ball bearings, rusty nails, screws soaked with rat poison!
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Originally posted by freedomclub:
"The Qassam rocket (Arabic: صاروخ القسام Ṣ�rūkh al-Qass�m; also Kassam) is a simple steel rocket filled with explosives, produced by Hamas. Three models have been used. They are all free-flying artillery rockets lacking any guidance system.
The rocket has gained significant notoriety through its development and deployment by Hamas against Israeli targets in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Since 2001, Qassam rockets have claimed the lives of at least 28 Israelis and injured hundreds (as of 9 January 2009)"
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket
That really puts things into perspective, doesnt it?
8600 rockets killing 28 Israelis. I wonder how many JDAMs Israel used during the Gaza offensive to get a score of 1200 Palestinians?
Is it really 1200 casualties? Is there a confirmation on the Palestinian claims?
You know the "Jenin massacre"? After months of investigation by UN, the Palestinians finally abrogated the figure from 500-800 dead to 56 only, mostly militants.
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Haha, ball bearings are not as effective as chemical or biological agents....because chemical and biological agents will stay in an area for a certain period of time like days or weeks
Best use Agent Orange--Stays in the area for months and years and pollutes the land. Birth deformities are common with consumption of food contanimated with it
Or an air borne version of the Marburg virus...highly infectious and causes high mortality
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Originally posted by freedomclub:
Israeli army used flechettes against Gaza civilians
27 January 2009
Apart from white phosphorus, the Israeli army used a variety of other weapons in densely populated civilian areas of Gaza in the three-week conflict that began on 27 December.
Flechettes are 4cm long metal darts that are sharply pointed at the front, with four fins at the rear. Between 5,000 and 8,000 are packed into 120mm shells which are generally fired from tanks. The shells explode in the air and scatter the flechettes in a conical pattern over an area about 300m wide and 100m long.
An anti-personnel weapon designed to penetrate dense vegetation, flechettes should never be used in built-up civilian areas. The Israeli army has used them in Gaza periodically for several years. In most cases their use has resulted in civilians being killed or injured.
Amnesty International's fact-finding team in Gaza first heard about the use of flechettes in the most recent conflict some ten days ago. The father of one of the victims showed the team a flechette which had been taken out of his son's body.
In its latest post on Amnesty International's Livewire blog, the team described how on Monday it visited towns and villages around Gaza and found more hard evidence of the use of flechettes.
In 'Izbat Beit Hanoun, to the south-west of the town of Beit Hanoun, several flechette shells were fired into the main road, killing two people and injuring several others on the morning of 5 January.
Wafa' Nabil Abu Jarad, a 21-year-old pregnant mother of two, was one of those killed. Her husband and her mother-in-law told the team that the family had just had breakfast and were outside the house drinking tea in the sun.
Wafa' and her husband were standing by the corner of the house when they heard a noise, followed by screams. They turned to go back into their house but at that moment Wafa' and several other members of the family were hit by flechettes. Wafa’ was killed outright.
That same day, at the other end of the street, 16-year-old Islam Jaber Abd-al-Dayem was struck in the neck by a flechette. He was taken to the hospital's intensive care unit but died three days later. Mizar, his brother, was injured in the same attack and still has a flechette lodged in his back.
In the village of al-Mughraqa on the morning of 7 January, a shell struck the room where Atta Hassan Aref Azzam was sitting with two of his children, Mohammed, aged 13 and Hassan, aged two and a half. All three were killed. The six other members of the family who were in the house fled to the nearest school for shelter. The team examined the bloodstained wall by which the three were killed. It was full of flechettes.Wow... 5000-8000 4cm darts in an explosive shell has such massive firepower that it killed a whopping number of TWO and only injuring several others.
Must be some really farked up Flechette round. Israeli military must have been using expired ammunition or something.
Seriously, if they used a Flechette round, it would have been a blood bath on the entire street.
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Originally posted by Shotgun:
Wow... 5000-8000 4cm darts in an explosive shell has such massive firepower that it killed a whopping number of TWO and only injuring several others.
Must be some really farked up Flechette round. Israeli military must have been using expired ammunition or something.
Seriously, if they used a Flechette round, it would have been a blood bath on the entire street.
Kill radius. Learn it motherfucker.
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Oh right kill radius.... so "smart" of you eh?
Huge ass main battle tanks with smart targeting computers w/ laser range finders and those stupid tankers can only put the shell on the edge of the kill radius, resulting in a catastophic loss of two lives.
Go fuck your own mom, and ease off on the language.
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Originally posted by Shotgun:
Oh right kill radius.... so "smart" of you eh?
Huge ass main battle tanks with smart targeting computers w/ laser range finders and those stupid tankers can only put the shell on the edge of the kill radius, resulting in a catastophic loss of two lives.
Go fuck your own mom, and ease off on the language.
Of course, who is amnesty international to tell you what really happened right? I should have known you weren't the ordinary garden variety lying motherfucker, you're the real thing, the hot as a lump of dog shit motherfucker.
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Originally posted by frakfrakfrak:
Of course, who is amnesty international to tell you what really happened right? I should have known you weren't the ordinary garden variety lying motherfucker, you're the real thing, the hot as a lump of dog shit motherfucker.
And in which statement did I tell a lie?
I questioned whether 5000-8000 fletchettes in a shell, killing 2 people is a likely story. Was that a Lie?
Israeli main battle tanks carry fire control computers with laser range finders, is that a Lie?
Somehow, with accurate fire control computers, powerful flechette rounds kill only a handful of people... WOW. Is that a Lie or a question?
People like you don't help promote sympathy to the Gazans. You diss off everybody who is even half sympathetic to their cause.
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Originally posted by frakfrakfrak:
Kill radius. Learn it motherfucker.
Seriously? Those things could kill an entire platoon of men at least. And all they did was kill 2? The tank soldiers sure need to be sent for some live firing practice. -
Originally posted by Shotgun:
And in which statement did I tell a lie?
I questioned whether 5000-8000 fletchettes in a shell, killing 2 people is a likely story. Was that a Lie?
Israeli main battle tanks carry fire control computers with laser range finders, is that a Lie?
Somehow, with accurate fire control computers, powerful flechette rounds kill only a handful of people... WOW. Is that a Lie or a question?
People like you don't help promote sympathy to the Gazans. You diss off everybody who is even half sympathetic to their cause.
I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be sympathetic to either. Quite frankly, both sides are equally screwed, but it seems there are plenty who out to exaggerate the exploits on both sides. BUt this hits hilarity when someone suggest something with the destructive force of a small artillery shell can only kill mere 2 people. For that kind of money, they could have just used a cheaper missile, or just a couple of shots from a rifle.
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What is the issue here that you fuckers are questioning the Amnesty International report on the use of fletchettes? Are fletchette so lethal that the case that was cited where ONLY 2 people were killed is somehow against the law of physics?
Truly this kind of mentality is nowhere near to impartial.
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Amnesty International was very prominent in spreading false rumours(lies) about the Jenin Massacre. Of couse the International media also contributed to the quick spread of the lies.
Even though Amnesty International later admitted that there was no massacre in Jenin, the lie is still being exploited by anti-israel organizations today, even after the truth has been revealed 7 years ago.
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Originally posted by googoomuck:
Amnesty International was very prominent in spreading false rumours(lies) about the Jenin Massacre. Of couse the International media also contributed to the quick spread of the lies.
Even though Amnesty International later admitted that there was no massacre in Jenin, the lie is still being exploited by anti-israel organizations today, even after the truth has been revealed 7 years ago.
What did anyone expect? Amnesty International is run by a bunch of peaceniks who deliberately exaggerate or lie about their sources. Plenty of people there hate the US and Israelis with a passion, and quite frankly, they are only a few steps lower in terms of stupidity when compared against PETA, but definitely as bad as Greenpeace when it comes intellectual dishonesty.