[News] Euro-Med: Israel used over 1, 000 white phosphorous bombs in Gaza

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Euro-Med: Israel used over 1,000 white phosphorous bombs in Gaza
GAZA, (PIC) - November 16, 2023
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The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has said that the Israeli army has
launched more than 1,000 strikes, utilizing internationally prohibited
white phosphorus, on populated areas since it started its genocidal war on
the Gaza Strip on October 7.

In a statement on Thursday, the Euro-Med Monitor said it had documented the
Israeli army’s indiscriminate use of white phosphorus against civilians,
describing it as an “incendiary substance that burns human flesh and causes
lifelong suffering.”

Euro-Med said that its team received testimonies affirming that the Israeli
army carried out 300 strikes with white phosphorus bombs and projectiles
within a period of about 40 minutes on Wednesday evening, November 15, on a
residential block in Beit Lahia town, north of Gaza.

“The night before, a large number of white phosphorus shells were
reportedly seen falling on a crowded populated area in Sheikh Radwan
neighborhood, north of Gaza City. Similar attacks also occurred on several
occasions in al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza and the town and camp of
Jabalia, north of the Strip,” Euro-Med elaborated.

“Palestinian residents said they suffered from severe shortness of breath
and coughing as a result of inhaling white phosphorus in the midst of
extremely unpleasant odors spreading in the air and severe blurred vision
due to the thick white smoke,” Euro-Med cited.

According to Euro-Med, people exposed to white phosphorus can suffer from
respiratory damage, organ failure, and other serious and life-altering
injuries, including burns that are extremely difficult to treat and cannot
be relieved with water.

“The escalating use of white phosphorus and smoke bombs against densely
populated areas comes within the framework of forced displacement and
ethnic cleansing that are being practiced by the Israeli army in order to
force half of the Gaza’s population to leave their homes, shelters and
hospitals and move to areas in the south of the Gaza Valley.”

Euro-Med accused Israel of persisting in violating the principles of
proportionality and precaution by launching random attacks on the Gaza
Strip and directly targeting the lives and health of civilians, and using
internationally prohibited weapons in flagrant violation of the
international humanitarian law and the rules of war.

“In addition to that, Israel uses bombs with huge destructive power against
populated areas, and such bombs pose the single greatest threat to
civilians in modern armed conflicts. This explains the severity of the
massive destruction that turns entire residential neighborhoods into rubble
and ruins in the Gaza Strip.”
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