Israel uses banned weapons in striking Gaza: Official

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40 percent of those killed in ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strips were women and children.
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The Palestinian Health Ministry has accused Israel of using banned weapons in pounding the Gaza Strip.

"Gaza hospitals burst at the seams of martyrs and wounded," health undersecretary Youssef Abul Resh told a press conference in Gaza City late Saturday.

He accused Israel of using banned weapons in striking the Gaza Strip, home to 1.8 million Palestinians.

"Medical teams have found wounds on the bodies of those killed and injured that are caused by the banned DIME weapons," the Palestinian official said.

"Foreign doctors in Gaza have confirmed that Israeli missiles and shells are destructive and internationally banned," he added.

Abul Resh cited that about 40 percent of those killed in ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strips were women and children.

"Children and women make up around 62 percent of those injured in the attacks," he said, going on to appeal to human rights organizations and the international community "to pile pressures on Israel to halt is aggression on the Gaza Strip".

Leaflets

Israeli military aircraft dropped leaflets on a town in northern Gaza Strip in the early hours of Sunday, urging the residents of specific neighborhoods to leave their homes, eyewitnesses said.

According to the witnesses, leaflets were dropped on Beit Lahia town, calling on the residents of several areas in the town to vacate their homes because the Israeli army is set to target these areas, which the army claims are used as launch points for rockets fire into Israel.

The witnesses said the leaflets set the areas to be targeted as the region stretching between Attatrah and Salattin neighborhoods as well as the west and north of Jabalia refugee camp.

"For your safety, you have to vacate your homes and go to the south of Jabalia through the Fallujah road until 12pm on Sunday," an eyewitness read out one of the leaflets to Anadolu Agency.

"All those who violate these instructions are exposing their and the families' lives to danger," it added.

At least 163 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed and hundreds injured since Monday when Israel launched "Operation Protective Edge" in the Gaza Strip with the stated goal of ending rocket fire from the strip.

Since then, Israeli warplanes have been pounding the Gaza Strip with hundreds of airstrikes as ground troops remain amassed on the Strip's borders in advance of a possible ground assault.

Gaza-based resistance factions, for their part, have continued to fire hundreds of low-yield rockets into Israel in response to ongoing Israeli airstrikes.

No Israeli fatalities have been reported thus far, with Israel's anti-missile defense systems intercepting numerous Gaza rockets, some of which have reached Tel Aviv.

 

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"Medical teams have found wounds on the bodies of those killed and injured that are caused by the banned DIME weapons," the Palestinian official said.

There is nothing banned about the DIME weapons. Tell that to ur Palestinian propagandist official.

 

[Ceylal]

There is nothing banned about the DIME weapons. Tell that to ur Palestinian propagandist official.

Nonetheless, is still horrible to be used against civilians...
Israel would use the DIME, a particularly terrible weapon
Gaza (Palestinian Territories), special envoy.
Pierre Barbancey
Sunday, July 13, 2014

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Norwegian surgeon Erik Fosse shows the burns to an injured thigh amputated. The effects of DIME. Pierre Barbancey
EXCLUSIVE. According to a Norwegian surgeon came to help his colleagues in Gaza, the Israeli army launched DIME bombs. The wounds are almost incurable and usually lead to amputation. We saw the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza.
Gaza (Palestinian Territories), special envoy.

Israeli warplanes pounded relentlessly Gaza for nearly a week. The toll rises day. Sunday at noon, 166 Palestinians were killed, including more than half would be civilians, according to the Office for the Coordination of UN Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). An unprecedented deluge of fire.
As if that were not enough, Israel would use again - as was the case in South Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza during the offensive in late 2008 early 2009 - a formidable weapon called DIME for Dense Inert Metal Explosive. This was said on Sunday a team of surgeons who operate and work tirelessly to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Among them, a Norwegian physician, professor at Oslo, Erik Fosse, arrived Friday. "We work day and night, he said. Many bombing houses take place overnight. We have many families who come here with a lot of injuries hit with shrapnel or because they were buried under the rubble. We also have patients who have injuries from the use of anti-personnel weapons. We have seen affected by conventional weapons, which had lesions from splinters. This is what we see in all wars. It should be noted that the Gaza people are weakened by seven years of blockade and when they are injured effects are more serious. But there are also, as in 2008/2009, patients affected by DIME bombs are fired by drones. They carry these bomblets that have a special effect on the victims. "

To the bed of a wounded during an attack, it seems the head of the Gaza police also seriously injured - while 18 others were killed at the exit of a mosque and 15 were injured Saturday night - Professor Fosse shows the characteristics of this weapon burns that mark the body. "In general, the lower limbs are affected, which is the case here" , he insists lifting the sheet. The man lost his right leg and is between life and death. His face is partially burned. He has difficulty breathing.

"This is a huge humanitarian disaster. A disaster is not natural but created by men. "
Developed in the early 2000s by the laboratories of the U.S. Air Force, is a DIME munition based on a carbon fiber casing containing a mixed alloy of heavy metals and tungsten powder explosive with cobalt, nickel or iron. injuries caused are virtually incurable and usually lead to amputation. DIME causes extensive damage to living matter and soft tissue (dermis, muscles and bones). A weapon used particularly in asymmetric wars officially to avoid collateral damage. A weapon that is not prohibited but whose effects are atrocious. Saturday night, Gaza was unfortunately checked between the theory of a "clean bomb" (what an oxymoron) and practice there is a gulf called the death of civilians.

Erik Fosse knows whereof he speaks. During the offensive "Cast Lead" in 2008/2009, it had already come, with other foreign doctors lend a hand to his Palestinian colleagues to whom he pays tribute to the unfailing dedication. At the time, he had courageously denounced the use of DIME. "Few people survive, he says. This man must be a little away from the point of impact is what saved him. But if a child is hit by such a bomb, you can be sure that it has been referred. I personally saw two children these days affected in this way. "And Erik Fosse launch an alarm:" This is a huge humanitarian disaster. A disaster is not natural but created by men. "

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Israel's real purpose in Gaza operation? To kill Arabs
Since the first Lebanon war over 30 years ago, Israel's main strategy has been killing Arabs. The current atrocious war in Gaza is no different.
By Gideon Levy | Jul. 13, 2014 | 2:42 AM |

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A funeral of people killed in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Stip, July 9, 2014. Photo by AP

Palestinians run following what police said was an Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza City. July 9, 2014. Photo by Reuters

The goal of Operation Protective Edge is to restore the calm; the means: killing civilians. The slogan of the Mafia has become official Israeli policy. Israel sincerely believes that if it kills hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, quiet will reign. It is pointless to destroy the weapons stores of Hamas, which has already proved capable of rearmament. Bringing down the Hamas government is an unrealistic (and illegitimate) goal, one that Israel does not want: It is aware that the alternative could be much worse. That leaves only one possible purpose for the military operation: death to Arabs, accompanied by the cheering of the masses.

The Israel Defense Forces already has a “map of pain,” a diabolical invention that has replaced the no less diabolical “bank of targets,” and that map is spreading at a sickening pace. Watch Al Jazeera English, a balanced and professional television channel (unlike its Arabic sister station), and see the extent of its success. You won’t see it in Israel’s “open” broadcast studios, which as usual are only open to the Israeli victim, but on Al Jazeera you will see the whole truth, and perhaps you will even be shocked.

The bodies in Gaza are piling up, the desperate, constantly updated tabulation of mass killing that Israel boasts of, which already numbers dozens of civilians, including 24 children as of noon on Saturday; hundreds of people injured, in addition to horror and destruction. One school and one hospital have already been bombed. The aim is to strike homes, and no amount of justification can help: It’s a war crime, even if the IDF calls them “command-and-control centers” or “conference rooms.” Granted, there are strikes that are much more brutal than Israel’s, but in this war, which is nothing other than mutual attacks on civilians — the elephant against the fly — there aren’t even any refugees. In contrast to Syria and Iraq, in the Gaza Strip the inhabitants do not have the luxury of fleeing for their lives. In a cage, there’s nowhere to run.

Since the first Lebanon war, more than 30 years ago, the killing of Arabs has become Israel’s primary strategic instrument. The IDF doesn’t wage war against armies, and its main target is civilian populations. Arabs are born only to kill and to be killed, as everyone knows. They have no other goal in life, and Israel kills them.

One must, of course, be outraged by the modus operandi of Hamas: Not only does it aim its rockets at civilian population centers in Israel, not only does it position itself within population centers — it may not have an alternative, given the crowded conditions in the Strip — but it also leaves the Gazan civilian population vulnerable to Israel’s brutal attacks, without seeing to a single siren, shelter or protected space. That is criminal. But the barrages of the Israel Air Force are no less criminal, on account of both the result and the intent: There isn’t a single residential building in the Gaza Strip that is not home to dozens of women and children; the IDF cannot, therefore, claim that it does not mean to hurt innocent civilians. If the recent demolition of the home of a terrorist in the West Bank still stirred a weak protest, now dozens of homes are being destroyed, together with their occupants.

Retired generals and commentators on active duty compete to make the most monstrous proposal: “If we kill their families, that will frighten them,” explained Maj.Gen. (res.) Oren Shachor, without batting an eyelid. “We must create a situation such that when they come out of their burrows, they won’t recognize Gaza,” others said. Shamelessly, without question — until the next Goldstone investigation.

A war with no goal is among the most despicable of wars; the deliberate targeting of civilians is among the most atrocious of means. Terror now reigns in Israel as well, but it’s unlikely there is a single Israeli who can imagine what it’s like for Gaza’s 1.8 million inhabitants, whose already miserable lives are now totally horrific. The Gaza Strip is not a “hornet’s nest,” it is a province of human desperation. Hamas is not an army, far from it, despite all the fear tactics: If it really did build such a sophisticated network of tunnels there, as is claimed, then why doesn’t it build Tel Aviv’s light rail network, already?

The 1,000-sortie and 1,000 tons of explosives marks have almost been reached, and Israel is waiting for the “victory picture” that has already been achieved: Death to Arabs.

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[Archdemon]

Dense Inertial Metal Explosive is illegal? this weapon on the contrary intended to minimize collateral damage! Lies lies and more lies, deceiving propaganda.

 

[Dillinger]

Dense Inertial Metal Explosive is illegal? this weapon on the contrary intended to minimize collateral damage! Lies lies and more lies, deceiving propaganda.

True as that maybe, if the inert metal being used is tungsten then the micro shrapnel induced wounds can lead to severe toxicity induced medical complications, in fact tungsten powder is near impossible to surgically remove from the wounds caused by such weapons.

 

[SekrutYakhni]

Israel has turned into a monster that cannot be controlled now.

UN should send the troops in Israel and Palestine.

 

[Fukuoka]

Actually Israel doesn't need forbidden weapons this time, as they know zionist Al Qaeda will protect their borders killing everybody in Syria, Iraq

They just have fun with normal bombs, but in the war against Hezbollah they clearly have used massively forbidden weapons because Hezbollah was too strong

IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon Israel News | Haaretz

 

[Jlaw]

Israel uses banned weapons in striking Gaza: Official | Middle East | Worldbulletin News

40 percent of those killed in ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strips were women and children.
World Bulletin/News Desk

The Palestinian Health Ministry has accused Israel of using banned weapons in pounding the Gaza Strip.

"Gaza hospitals burst at the seams of martyrs and wounded," health undersecretary Youssef Abul Resh told a press conference in Gaza City late Saturday.

He accused Israel of using banned weapons in striking the Gaza Strip, home to 1.8 million Palestinians.

"Medical teams have found wounds on the bodies of those killed and injured that are caused by the banned DIME weapons," the Palestinian official said.

"Foreign doctors in Gaza have confirmed that Israeli missiles and shells are destructive and internationally banned," he added.

Abul Resh cited that about 40 percent of those killed in ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strips were women and children.

"Children and women make up around 62 percent of those injured in the attacks," he said, going on to appeal to human rights organizations and the international community "to pile pressures on Israel to halt is aggression on the Gaza Strip".

Leaflets

Israeli military aircraft dropped leaflets on a town in northern Gaza Strip in the early hours of Sunday, urging the residents of specific neighborhoods to leave their homes, eyewitnesses said.

According to the witnesses, leaflets were dropped on Beit Lahia town, calling on the residents of several areas in the town to vacate their homes because the Israeli army is set to target these areas, which the army claims are used as launch points for rockets fire into Israel.

The witnesses said the leaflets set the areas to be targeted as the region stretching between Attatrah and Salattin neighborhoods as well as the west and north of Jabalia refugee camp.

"For your safety, you have to vacate your homes and go to the south of Jabalia through the Fallujah road until 12pm on Sunday," an eyewitness read out one of the leaflets to Anadolu Agency.

"All those who violate these instructions are exposing their and the families' lives to danger," it added.

At least 163 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed and hundreds injured since Monday when Israel launched "Operation Protective Edge" in the Gaza Strip with the stated goal of ending rocket fire from the strip.

Since then, Israeli warplanes have been pounding the Gaza Strip with hundreds of airstrikes as ground troops remain amassed on the Strip's borders in advance of a possible ground assault.

Gaza-based resistance factions, for their part, have continued to fire hundreds of low-yield rockets into Israel in response to ongoing Israeli airstrikes.

No Israeli fatalities have been reported thus far, with Israel's anti-missile defense systems intercepting numerous Gaza rockets, some of which have reached Tel Aviv.

It is sad that civilians are killed but in war, all's fair. There is no such thing as banned weapons. You use whatever you think that can inflict the most damage to the enemies.

 

[Ceylal]

This a palestinian terrorist who is throwing a big rock on a small Israeli tank that has done nothing to him....IF you don't agree [with the statement] you are anti semite...

 

[Green Angel]

Dense Inertial Metal Explosive is illegal? this weapon on the contrary intended to minimize collateral damage! Lies lies and more lies, deceiving propaganda.

Coward nations always kill innocents,and call themselves powerful.......... lol.

 

[Archdemon]

Coward nations always kill innocents,and call themselves powerful.......... lol.

And the relevance of your reply to my post is?

 

[ResurgentIran]

My brother says when he logs in to facebook, the main front page is filled with posts condeming Israel and sympathizing with Gaza a lot. People are posting pcitures holding up signs and stuff like that.

This conflict is increasingly getting the attention of entire world, and world opinion is turning very severe against Israel.
Everyone know now who is the true Goliath in Palestine

 

[OrionHunter]

Dense Inertial Metal Explosive is illegal? this weapon on the contrary intended to minimize collateral damage! Lies lies and more lies, deceiving propaganda.

Right! DIME weapons are intended to limit the distance at which the explosion causes damage, to avoid collateral damage.

However, DIME weapons have strong biological effects in those who are hit by the micro shrapnel from these types of explosives. The tungsten alloy carcinogenicity may be most closely related to the nickel content of the alloys used in the weapon. Pure tungsten is also suspected of causing cancer.

I don't think this weapon has been banned.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Dense Inertial Metal Explosive is illegal? this weapon on the contrary intended to minimize collateral damage! Lies lies and more lies, deceiving propaganda.

DIME weapons - Google Search

 

[Archdemon]

Right! DIME weapons are intended to limit the distance at which the explosion causes damage, to avoid collateral damage.

However, DIME weapons have strong biological effects in those who are hit by the micro shrapnel from these types of explosives. The tungsten alloy carcinogenicity may be most closely related to the nickel content of the alloys used in the weapon. Pure tungsten is also suspected of causing cancer.

I don't think this weapon has been banned.

Well, those who where targeted by DIME are not suppose to survive. There are kinetic energy penetrators made of depleted uranium, they are much much worse.