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the medical teams face new sort of burns , thier is a possibility that israel uses white phosphorus against civilians, INVESTIGATION IS NEEDED AT ONCE .Mads Gilbert, un metge norueg que es troba a Gaza, creu que Israel està utilitzant un tipus d'arma experimental, concretament explosius de metall inert dens (DIME). Aquests explosius contenen una pols molt densa d'una aleació de tungstè (HMTA):
I can tell you that we have clear evidence that the Israelis are using a new type of very high explosive weapons which are called Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME) and are made out of a tungsten alloy.El diari The Guardian cita altres casos:
These weapons have an enormous power to explode.
The power of the explosion dissipates very quickly and the strength does not travel long, maybe 10 meters, but those humans who are hit by this explosion, this pressure wave are cut in pieces.
This was first used in Lebanon in 2006, it was used here in Gaza in 2006 and the injuries that we see in Shifa [Hospital] now, many many of them I suspect and we all suspect are the effect of DIME weapons used by the Israelis.
On the long term, these weapons will have a cancer effect on those who survive. They will develop cancer we suspect. There has been very little research on this but some research has been among other places in the United States, which show that these weapons have a high tendency to develop cancer. So they kill and those who survive risk having cancer.
"Bodies arrived severely fragmented, melted and disfigured," said Jumaa Saqa'a, a doctor at Shifa hospital, the main casualty hospital in Gaza City. "We found internal burning of organs, while externally there were minute pieces of shrapnel. When we opened many of the injured people we found dusting on the internal organs."
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[Beit Lahiya, at the Kamal Odwan Hospital] too found patients with severe internal injuries without signs of any large shrapnel pieces. Often there was severe burning. "There was burning, big raw areas of charred flesh," he said. "This must be related to the type of explosive material."
Palestinian girl wounded in a strike on Beit Lahia in Gaza. Photo: Mohammed Abed/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images
A Palestinian woman knelt beside the bodies of relatives, moments after they were killed in an Israeli missile strike outside their home in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo: Khalil Hamra/Associated Press
The aftermath of an airstrike in the Rafah refugee camp on Wednesday. Photo: Khaled Omar/Associated Press
A wounded Palestinian was carried near a United Nations school in Gaza. Reuters reported that two tank shells exploded outside the school, spraying shrapnel inside and outside the building where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge from the fighting. Photo: Ismail Zaydah/Reuters
A girl was among the dead in the air strike. About 30 people were inside the house when it was destroyed, neighbors said. Photo: Mohammed Abed/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images
A boy's body was carried from the rubble after the strike on Mr. Rayyan's home, in Jabaliya, north of Gaza City. Mr. Rayyan was the first high-ranking Hamas figure to be killed in the Israeli campaign. Photo: Ismail Zaydah/Reuters
Men in Gaza City tended to others who were wounded on Sunday as Israeli ground troops and tanks cut through the Gaza Strip, dividing it in two. Photo: Ashraf Amra/Associated Press
Travelling into Palestine's West Bank and Gaza Strip, which I visited recently, is like a surreal trip back into an apartheid state of emergency.
It is chilling to pass through the myriad checkpoints -- more than 500 in the West Bank. They are controlled by heavily armed soldiers, youthful but grim, tensely watching every movement, fingers on the trigger.
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Sweeping past the lines of Palestinians on foot or in taxis was like a view of the silent, depressed pass- office queues of South Africa's past. A journey from one West Bank town to another that could take 20 minutes by car now takes seven hours for Palestinians, with manifold indignities at the hands of teenage soldiers.
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The "security barrier", as the Israeli's term it, is designed to crush the human spirit as much as to enclose the Palestinians in ghettoes. Like a reptile, it transforms its shape and cuts across agricultural lands as a steel-and-wire barrier, with watchtowers, ditches, patrol roads and alarm systems. It will be 700km long and, at a height of 8m to 9m in places, dwarfs the Berlin Wall.
The purpose of the barrier becomes clearest in open country. Its route cuts huge swathes into the West Bank to incorporate into Israel the illegal Jewish settlements -- some of which are huge towns -- and annexes more and more Palestinian territory.
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The West Bank, once 22% of historic Palestine, has shrunk to perhaps 10% to 12% of living space for its inhabitants, and is split into several fragments, including the fertile Jordan Valley, which is a security preserve for Jewish settlers and the Israeli Defence Force. Like the Gaza Strip, the West Bank is effectively a hermetically sealed prison. It is shocking to discover that certain roads are barred to Palestinians and reserved for Jewish settlers. I try in vain to recall anything quite as obscene in apartheid South Africa.
[N]othing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
"Tot el que puja, baixa." (Hwang Sim-yop)