Israel said to use white phosphorus

Jason Keyser, Associated Press, Jerusalem

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“JERUSALEM — Human Rights Watch said Sunday that Israel’s military has fired artillery shells with the incendiary agent white phosphorus into Gaza and a doctor there said the chemical was suspected in the case of 10 burn victims who had skin peeling off their faces and bodies.

Researchers in Israel from the rights group witnessed hours of artillery bombardments that sent trails of burning smoke indicating white phosphorus over the Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. But they could not confirm injuries… An AP photographer and a TV crew based in Gaza visited Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Sunday and recorded images of several burn patients.

One of them, Haitham Tahseen, recalled sitting outside his home with his family in the morning when something exploded above them. ‘Suddenly, I saw bombs coming with white smoke,’ said the man, whose burned face was covered with medical cream. ‘It looked very red and it had white smoke. That’s the first time I’ve seen such a thing.’

His cousin, in another hospital bed, was more severely burned, with patches of skin—”

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The headline says said to use. The photograph names the man in the bed.

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"Israel said to use white phosphorus," Pensacola News Journal, 12 January 2009, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2009-014. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2009-014