Video shows proof of phosphorus bombs in Gaza

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Video showing injuries consistent with the use of white phosporus shells has been filmed inside hospitals treating Palestinian wounded in Gaza City.

Contact with the shell remnants causes severe burns, sometimes burning the skin to the bone, consistent with descriptions by Ahmed Almi, an Egyptian doctor at the al-Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.

Almi said the entire body of one victim was burned within an hour. It was the first time he had seen the effects of what he called a "chemical weapon".

The Israeli military has denied using white phosphorus during the assault on Gaza, but aid agencies say they have no doubt it has been used.

"It is an absolute certainty," Marc Garlasco, a senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch, told the Guardian. He had seen Israeli artillery fire white phosphorus shells at Gaza City, Garlasco said.

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Garlasco said each shell contains more than 100 incendiary rounds, which ignite and pump out smoke for about 10 minutes.

Severe respiratory problems can result in anyone exposed to the smoke and burning chemical particles that rain down over an area the size of a football pitch.

more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/16/phosphorus-bombs-video-israel-gaza

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1. Gee, bombing children and civilians with phosphorus bombs is really brave

[mod mom]

2. Are you allowed to post this video in the video forum? Very disturbing.

[tekisui]

3. It will likely get locked, but not before it is seen.

[mod mom]

4. It needs to be seen. Why should we hide the horrors of what is being done!

[tekisui]

5. I agree 100%.