tagged w/ THE UN MUST ACT TO STOP THIS TODAY EVEN IF IT MEAN SECURITY COUNCIL FORCES
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Israel is using Phosphorous Bombs (http://liberaljournal.blogspot.com/2006/07/chemical-allie.html)
as well as cluster bombs (http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/04/israel-cluster-bombs/) on civilians, the same bombs used during the Lebanon war that the United Nations and other government entities has deemed weapons of mass destruction.
I would put the pictures up, but they are highly graphic images of children and adults that look melted, and with flesh on their limbs burned off to the bone.
Here are some links, but beware, highly graphic:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/images2/white_phosphorusbone.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/daveclarkecb/NewPhotos/VictimOfWhitePhos.jpg
http://electronicintifada.net/artman2/uploads/1/cluster-bomb-victim-483.jpg
http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/cluster-bomb.jpg
Here is the story:
Israel seized control of high-rise buildings and attacked houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels as it pressed its offensive against the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers on Monday, while the U.S. joined a stream of countries pushing for a cease-fire.
At least 14 Palestinian children were killed on Monday, raising the known death toll from the 10-day onslaught to 540 — including 200 civilians, the U.N. and Palestinian officials said. Gaza's biggest hospital said it was overwhelmed.
From Gaza, Hamas continued to pummel southern Israel with more than two dozen rockets on Monday and promised to wait for Israeli soldiers "in every street and every alleyway."
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the offensive would go on until Israel achieved "peace and tranquility" for residents of southern Israel.
After a week of air strikes beginning Dec. 27, Israeli ground troops invaded Gaza late Saturday. They quickly seized a main highway in Gaza, slicing the territory in half, and on Monday, Israeli forces pounded houses — one of them belonging to a leading Hamas member who was not there at the time — a pair of mosques and smuggling tunnels.
Israel has attacked several mosques during the campaign, saying they were used to store weapons.
More at the link, and the stories on evidence of these weapons are at the links provided in the beginning of this post.Israel is using Phosphorous Bombs... more
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