Why Did Israel Lie About Using White Phosporous on Lebanese Civilians?

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Last Update 6:42 22/10/2006
Israel ADMITS USING PHOSPHORUS BOMBS DURING WAR IN LEBANON
Haarettz (Isreali newspaper)
By Meron Rappaport, Haaretz Correspondent .
Israel has acknowledged for the first time that it attacked Hezbollah targets during the second Lebanon war with phosphorus shells. White phosphorus causes very painful and often lethal chemical burns to those hit by it, and until recently Israel maintained that it only uses such bombs to mark targets or territory.

The announcement that the Israel Defense Forces had used phosphorus bombs in the war in Lebanon was made by Minister Jacob Edery, in charge of government-Knesset relations. He had been queried on the matter by MK Zahava Gal-On (Meretz-Yahad).
During the war several foreign media outlets reported that Lebanese civilians carried injuries characteristic of attacks with phosphorus, a substance that burns when it comes to contact with air.

In another case, Dr. Hussein Hamud al-Shel, who works at Dar al-Amal hospital in Ba'albek, said that he had received three corpses "entirely shriveled with black-green skin," a phenomenon characteristic of phosphorus injuries.

Lebanon's President Emile Lahoud also claimed that the IDF made use of phosphorus munitions against civilians in Lebanon.

In November 2004 the U.S. Army used phosphorus munitions during an offensive in Faluja, Iraq. Burned bodies of civilians hit by the phosphorus munitions were shown by the press, and an international outcry against the practice followed.

Initially the U.S. denied that it had used phosphorus bombs against humans, but then acknowledged that during the assault targets that were neither civilian nor population concentrations were hit with such munitions. Israel also says that the use of "incendiary munitions are not in themselves illegal."

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The third protocol of the Geneva Convention on Conventional Weapons restricts the use of "incendiary weapons," with phosphorus considered to be one such weapon.

Israel and the United States are NOT signatories to the Third Protocol.

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Answer 1

They would deny it for the same reason that the USA tried to deny the effects of Agent Orange

Answer 2

The use of white phosphorus is not illegal. The effective use of white phosphorus is to provide instant smoke for screening or marking target areas. White phosphorus is extremely damaging if it gets on one's skin; however so are improved cluster munitions, conventional high explosives, or thermobaric munitions. The use against populated areas is generally frowned upon because of the inability to discriminate between fighters and innocents, however it is not illegal to use. Smoke munitions (and herbicides, and riot-control agents) are not illegal in warfare, but there are certain restrictions due to the fact that many countries do view these military compounds as chemical warfare-which they are certainly not.

Answer 3

This is an awful CIVIL WAR between the Children of Abraham, all of whom are Semites, and which will apparently go on without end. They have been fighting this war for over 70 years now, and there's not a trace of an end or a solution to the conflict in sight!

Answer 4

What is your point? Willy Peter is a legit weapon of war, used by the way by the arabs in all their wars against each other and Israel. So they used it, so what. They lied,so what? They are at war and when your at war you don't tell the people who are trying to kill you what you are doing or going to do. Did you know that more Israeli civilians have died from deliberate terrorist action by the arabs then arabs in collateral damage? You want to make war on a nation expect that nation to defend itself anyway it can. If you don't like the pain and suffering stop attacking Israel.

Answer 5

Mr. Willie Peter gets the job done. If Israel was really smart they'd have burned South Lebanon right down to the ground.

Answer 6

this may be real yet i might want to confirm data of this as doing so may be a conflict crime of the optimal order. The accusation might desire to be backed up by different than a French physician and a television checklist. it is achievable that the bombing could have launched chemical compounds that have been being saved by Hezbolla or in simple terms have been saved in a warehouse and have been launched by fire. some pesticides are comparable chemical brokers.

Answer 7

trying to match the muslims i guess when you live surrounded by countires that lie all the time guess it rubs off
why dont palistains go back to their country and leave the jews to their homeland of 4000 years?

Answer 8

This is typical of Israel

Answer 9

They did so because they did't want to have the world criticizing them.

Answer 10

Let em buuuurn!