Israel is using chemical weapons in Gaza?

[sister_Harb]

Palestinian injuries suggest Israel is using chemical weapons in Gaza

Date: 10 / 07 / 2006 Time: 22:07

Salfit- Gaza- Ma'an- The Palestinian ministry of health revealed on Monday that the Israeli army has used a new type of explosive in its offensive on the Gaza Strip. These explosives contain toxics and radioactive materials which burn and tear the victim's body from the inside and leave long term deformations.

The ministry called upon the international community and the humanitarian organizations to send an international medical community to examine the victims and confirm the truth about these banned weapons that Israel appears to be using.

The ministry showed that most of the injuries which the hospitals receive result from huge explosions which cause burning and severing of limbs, including the inner parts of the body. This causes long term deformations.

It is added that doctors in Gaza have been forced to amputate limbs of at least 12 injured Palestinians as a result of injuries sustained in the current Israeli offensive on the Strip.

by Maannews

[sister_Harb]

"Chemical weapons? Really?"

1974: US General tells Senate Armed Forces Committee that Israel’s chemical weapons program is operational.

July 1, 1982: Soviet TASS carries reports from Beirut that Israel is using chemical weapons including BZ nerve gas.

July 5, 1982: Soviet Union accuses US of providing Israel ‘barbarous’ weapons, including chemical weapons, that Israel uses in invasion of Lebanon.

December 4, 1988: PFLP accuses the Israeli Army of using a new chemical weapon against Palestinians…causing various wounds and “organic complications”, cites doctors treating victims in Tobay and Tamoun.

March – April, 1988: Former mayor of Nablus reports: “Fleets of helicopters fly over Nablus at night dropping a dense, green toxic gas over the city..” Doctors at Ittihad Hospital report several deaths and severe lung injuries from the unidentified asphyxiating chemical, “totally distinct from tear gas..” UNRWA doctors report symptoms not normally connected with tear gas. UNRWA seeks information on contents of the gas...to provide antidote...especially for the most vulnerable groups…pregnant women, the very young and elderly..”

January - February, 1989: Israeli officials including Binyamin Netanyahu partially admit possession of a chemical weapons program.

February 6, 1989: League of Arab States' Committee of Seven condemns use of chemical weapons against Palestinians.

1990: US Defense Intelligence Agency states Israel maintains chemical testing facility possibly in Negev desert.

July, 1990: Israeli Minister of Science: If Iraq uses chemical weapons Israel will retaliate "with the same merchandise."

October 4, 1992: El Al 747 cargo plane en route from New York to Israel crashes into Amsterdam apartment building, carrying three of the four chemicals needed to make sarin nerve gas. Hundreds of Dutch citizens suffer lingering health problems following exposure.

October 30, 1996: Rebels in Papua New Guinea accuse Israel of providing government forces with “chemical bombs” dropped by helicopters, causing skin irritation and burning.

1997: Israeli government decides not to submit 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention to Knesset for ratification.

September 25, 1997: Israeli Mossad agents attempt to poison Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal with fentanyl in Amman, Jordan. Meshaal is administered an antidote in exchange for Jordan’s release of captured Mossad agents.

1998: CBW center in Nes Ziona (Israel Institute for Biological Research, IIBR) drops plans to expand its facilities due to local pressure over environmental and safety hazards associated with the complex.

August, 1998: Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot publishes exposé calling IIBR “metropolitan Tel Aviv's most severe environmental hazard”, raises questions regarding IIBR secrecy.

August 19, 1998: British Foreign Report: In recent years, four IIBR workers killed and 25 injured in accidents, one of which forced evacuation of the surrounding area.

September 23, 1998: Israelis living near IIBR file an appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court to prevent the expansion of the institute.

October 4, 1998: Sunday Times of London: Israeli F-16’s capable of deploying chemical and biological weapons produced at IIBR. The Times quotes a biologist who once held a senior post in Israeli intelligence: "There is hardly a single known or unknown form of chemical or biological weapon...which is not manufactured at the institute [IIBR]."
November 15, 1998: The Sunday Times reports Israel (using South African research) is developing an "ethno bomb": "In developing their "ethno-bomb", Israeli scientists are trying to exploit medical advances by identifying distinctive a gene carried by some Arabs, then create a genetically modified bacterium or virus... The scientists are trying to engineer deadly micro-organisms that attack only those bearing the distinctive genes."

April 2, 1999: United Kingdom partially lifts ban against Israeli nuclear and CBW scientists.

October 29, 2000: Israeli occupation troops shoot gas canisters into schoolyard and classrooms at T'ku, near Bethlehem. Over 24 children suffer from gas inhalation and require hospitalization. Gas “differs from the standard tear-gas used around the world in dispersing demonstrations.” Spokesman for the Palestinian Health Ministry says it is “a semi-poisonous gas that leaves strong after effects, including spasmodic reactions, nervous reactions as well as strong abdominal pains..”

February 12, 2001 - Khan Younis, Gaza Strip: Israel begins a six-week campaign of “novel gas” attacks in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Troops lob gas canisters into streets, courtyards, and houses of Khan Younis city and Gharbi refugee camp.

http://www.vtjp.org/report/overview1.htm

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