'Phosphorus wounds' alarm Gazans

To Liberal_Extinction, nobody can deny the attack of the Hamas to Israel. You have to wonder though why these attacks started, who started first, who was the first oppressing the other side, which are the true reasons for this war, does Palestine belong to Israel and if it does genocide is the path?
What's the answer to that?
It is a very complex one, indeed truth can be found, you need to explain the roots and prove them with all the documentation you can come up. That day you will do that you are definitely going to doubt the majority's view of Palestine being the victim.
I seriously doubt you can do that nonetheless my challenge to you is open, waiting to be proved contrary.
I am for justice, I do not follow any flags or political views. Justice is what I fight for and my opinion is that what is happening right now is incredibly unjust, absurd and Israel has to take responsibility for it.
Go ahead and prove it to the world!

Here's the Law Israel is facing for War Crimes:

Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons (Protocol III). Geneva, 10 October 1980.
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Article 1

Definitions

For the purpose of this Protocol:
1. "Incendiary weapon" means any weapon or munition which is primarily designed to set fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of flame, heat, or combination thereof, produced by a chemical reaction of a substance delivered on the target. (a) Incendiary weapons can take the form of, for example, flame throwers, fougasses, shells, rockets, grenades, mines, bombs and other containers of incendiary substances.
(b) Incendiary weapons do not include:
(i) Munitions which may have incidental incendiary effects, such as illuminants, tracers, smoke or signalling systems;
(ii) Munitions designed to combine penetration, blast or fragmentation effects with an additional incendiary effect, such as armour-piercing projectiles, fragmentation shells, explosive bombs and similar combined-effects munitions in which the incendiary effect is not specifically designed to cause burn injury to persons, but to be used against military objectives, such as armoured vehicles, aircraft and installations or facilities.
2. "Concentration of civilians" means any concentration of civilians, be it permanent or temporary, such as in inhabited parts of cities, or inhabited towns or villages, or as in camps or columns of refugees or evacuees, or groups of nomads.
3. "Military objective" means, so far as objects are concerned, any object which by its nature, location, purpose or use makes an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.
4. "Civilian objects" are all objects which are not military objectives as defined in paragraph 3.
5. "Feasible precautions" are those precautions which are practicable or practically possible taking into account all circumstances ruling at the time, including humanitarian and military considerations.

Article 2
Protection of civilians and civilian objects

1. It is prohibited in all circumstances to make the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects the object of attack by incendiary weapons.
2. It is prohibited in all circumstances to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by air-delivered incendiary weapons.
3. It is further prohibited to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by means of incendiary weapons other than air-delivered incendiary weapons, except when such military objective is clearly separated from the concentration of civilians and all feasible precautions are taken with a view to limiting the incendiary effects to the military objective and to avoiding, and in any event to minimizing, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects.
4. It is prohibited to make forests or other kinds of plant cover the object of attack by incendiary weapons except when such natural elements are used to cover, conceal or camouflage combatants or other military objectives, or are themselves military objectives.

To Liberal_Extinction as you might know a war starts always because of one reason: Money.
Religion is and has been for thousands of years just a shallow excuse for wars. History proved it and keeps proving it repeating its self. Except for wars fought for freedom.
The other condition to a war to exist, as you might know, is having two or more parties one being the oppressor the other the victim.
Why do you want the world to think that Israel is the victim?

No, there weren't enough bad guys in those Urban centers to use phosphorus, WHY? that silly shit you said about the pistol doesn't even apply, That is what they should have been doing. There are certain rules to warfare, if not written rules "which there are" then gentlemanly rules, Israel was handing Hamas's ass to them. They didn't to burn up a bunch of innocents testing their latest toy supplied by the US for major operations. KAT is right on this one. Why do you think their after Isreali generals for war crimes? You are right on a lot of things just not this one, white P, should be saved for a last ditch effort or we are just back in the 60's slinging Napalm.

I think that Israel tried the "slap on the wrist" approach enough times. If you stood at 100 yards lobbing shots at me with a pistol hoping to land a random lucky bullet, I wouldn't grab a pistol and start exchanging pot shots with you. I'd grab my pistol and pop your head like a melon with 1 shot. Is that a proportionate response? No, not really especially with the way the far left love adjust definitions to fit their agenda. Is it an effective resposne? Yes, I'd say it would be absolutely effective at diffusing the situation. I do feel for the people that want no part of the conflict, but they need to realize it's hamas bringing the shit storm raining down on them, not Israel. Hamas continues to attempt to start a war, over and over again, and war is hell.

I hope so....I know everyone thinks I turned colors on this one, but I am right. End of story, doesn't mean I don't want Hamas dead, just means that teenage girls shouldn't get their legs burned off, and that Israel shouldn't make us look like assholes for hook in em up with top of the line shit. They should have saved this stuff for the Big Battles that will be on the Horizon, as long as the UN and the UE keep kissing the bad guys asses were gonna keep shooting them!!!

Wonder if the people of gaza have had enough white phosphorous to start asking them selves "why do we continue to let hamas poke the sleeping bear, perhaps we should do something about that"? Hamas prompted a war, in war there are weapons, effective weapons kill the enemy, the enemy hides among civilians, civilians become collateral damage, and hamas suddenly becomes a liberals best friend. So hamas is going to spend a little meatshield rent over the next few months while they PROMISE to continue to smuggle in weapons. Who's the bad guy here again?

I watched those two videos.
The Israel facts are very useful. It's sad really, that people do this. No, better yet, it's disgusting. Killing children, innocent people. It's wrong, someone needs to take action before it spreads. Like, real action.

mkl2695, Hamas is a resistance organization, and, as such, it consists of civilians - just as in WWII, the resistance organizations were part and parcel of the civilian population and didn't walk around in uniforms and such. Israel is not held to a different standard because they are Jews, Israel is judged and condemned because of what it does and has been doing for decades. You are the one who sticks to and believes lies and avoids the truth, not the world.

Why is it that no one talks about Hammas hiding in the civilian population? Why is it that they are the ones who put innocents in the way on pourpose for the propaganda effect. Why is it that Isreal is always held to a different standard because they are jews? Why does the world prefer lies to the truth?

Wow, some facts in that video I never knew about Israel. Really puts it into perspective what Israel has done as well as how it has fooled the world. Thanks HighRoller

Quit whining and take a bath, you need it after all the bleeding heart crap you keep slinging. When war happens, shit happens

it is against International law to use them in areas as Israel did. The UN is pressing for war crimes charges. WP activates upon contact with air and there are many areas of buried WP. Its a horrible weapon.

was this necessary? did this woman and her family pose a threat to the Israelis?

And for the soldiers to write in Arabic that they were sorry is appalling. It's like a nasty fifth grade thing to do--beat a group of friends up and then send them notes in class saying they were sorry...with a devil smiley face on it.

things like white phosphorous bombs should not be made. Although there are guidelines on it, did the UN (or whoever made up these guidelines) think that they would be followed?

If now you could extend your thinking to understand that Israel has been going too far for 60 years, then, you would understand something.

May God have mercy on the souls of all of the innocent lives lost.And even more mercy on the souls of the aggressors.

These are Nasty weapons. They vaporize people instantly. Crazy sheat.

thats extremely unfortunate.

Jeez, and I think I have it bad with my 2 1/2 low-pay jobs.

Weapons are getting too nasty as time revolves. White Phosphorous might have it's place, maybe to deter an attacker if an overwhelming invasion happens. But, using against civilians in urban centers is dastardly, I don't know if it rises to war crimes in this case, but, it certainly was FUCKED. After the infrastructure was bombed Israel should have started the ground assault, they bombed for at least seven days too long in my opinion. And they need to apologize and attempt to make amends, when in war it is all too easy to get caught up in the killing frenzy, after all we are animals biologically. This when LEADERS need to step back and take a breath. Israel went just a bit too far this time, and I fully backed them, but the White P, was uncalled for they already had them bombed back into the stone age. These weapons should be OUTLAWED and we as America need to get completely out of the weapons business. Somewhere we have lost focus, we need to reevaluate our stance on many issues. Weapons is just one of them. I still support Israel, but we cant let them become a thorn in our side either.